Varkon MBS Programmers manual

csys_3p - Geometric procedure

Description

Creates a local coordinate system defined by two or three positions.

Syntax

  csys_3p(id, name, p1, p2, p3:attributes);

REF	id;
STRING	name*10;
VECTOR	p1;
VECTOR	p2;
VECTOR	p3;

Principal parameters

id	- Local identity
name	- User defined name
p1	- Position of origin
p2	- Position on X-axis

Optional parameters

p3	- Position near Y-axis

Attributes

PEN	- Pen or colour number
LEVEL	- Level number
BLANK	- Visible(0) or invisible(1)

Example

csys_3p(#1,"Origin",vec(10,0,0), vec(11,0,0),vec(10,1,0));

Creates a coordinate system with origin in X=10 and Y=0. The direction of its axes are the same as the active coordinate system (no rotation).

Comments

If specified the third position p3 is used by the system to rotate the Y and Z axes around X so that the XY-plane will include p3. If p3 is not specified the system will do something anyway but the user has no way of knowing what the result will be. This method should only be used when the exact direction of the Y and Z-axes is not important.