3.3.1.50. NXtranslation

Status:

base class, extends NXobject, version 1.0

Description:

legacy class - (used by NXgeometry) - general spatial location of a component.

Symbols:

No symbol table

Groups cited:

NXgeometry

Structure:

distances[numobj, 3]: NX_FLOAT {units=NX_LENGTH}

(x,y,z) This field describes the lateral movement of a component. The pair of groups NXtranslation and NXorientation together describe the position of a component. For absolute position, the origin is the scattering center (where a perfectly aligned sample would be) with the z-axis pointing downstream and the y-axis pointing gravitationally up. For a relative position the NXtranslation is taken into account before the NXorientation. The axes are right-handed and orthonormal.

geometry: NXgeometry

Link to other object if we are relative, else absent

NXDL Source:

https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/blob/master/base_classes/NXtranslation.nxdl.xml