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Re: [ATM] CG Precision



Hi Richard,

Thursday, June 1, 2006, 3:34:40 PM, you wrote:

RFLRS> I have roughly eyeballed the positioning of the second design group
RFLRS> to have a common center of gravity with the first design group.

RFLRS> Do you think this is a critical operation

One way to find out for sure is to do a Tolerancing run in
Zemax. There are some good articles in their knowledge base :

http://www.zemax.com/kb/categories/Tutorials/Tolerancing/

Another way is to Export the group as a 3D DXF or IGES and
Import it into a CAD program, most of which will give you the
*mechanical* COG of an element or elements.

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Best regards,
  Richard in the UK

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