PCM

[[Cl...]]

I'm in the process of creating a 6-size part family PCM program.
I'm using a similar program created by someone else as a reference.
In his program there is an angled plane (30°). the variable in the .para
file he used is, sixty_one = 30. Why did he add the "rad"

rad(sixty_one)

[[Ju...]]

To convert it to radians?

[[Th...]]

In projection angle formulas, Calypso implicitly treats all numbers as radian values. It's much easier for the programmer (probably) to use the radian conversion function so you can continue to work in degrees, rather than have to manually convert to radians yourself.

If you removed the radian conversion and used the variable directly, you would end up with a nonsense angle.

[[Cl...]]

Ok, thank you.

[[Ri...]]

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My favorite is the Curve Slope Characteristic, it reports only in Radians, so you have to have a Formula Characteristic just to show it in Degrees. 🙁