Interpreting FEMM results

[acp]

tao says

Yes, the positive and negative torque values equate to the clockwise/counter-clockwise twists.

tao also says

I never said that positive = clockwise, I was just answering your original question, and acp incorrectly corrected me, even though I never made that statement.

To be clear, if it's needed:

positive torque value = counter-clockwise rotation
negative torque value = clockwise rotation

Well, yes, I must be wrong then....   Which one is it then? your first answer or your second? I'm sticking by my answer which, incidently, is the correct one........

[tao]

tao says

Yes, the positive and negative torque values equate to the clockwise/counter-clockwise twists.

tao also says

I never said that positive = clockwise, I was just answering your original question, and acp incorrectly corrected me, even though I never made that statement.

To be clear, if it's needed:

positive torque value = counter-clockwise rotation
negative torque value = clockwise rotation

Well, yes, I must be wrong then....   Which one is it then? your first answer or your second? I'm sticking by my answer which, incidently, is the correct one........

Just to be clear, my first answer doesn't say positive=clockwise and negative=counter-clockwise. All my first answer says is that the + and - values given equate to different twisting directions... You then posted the correlations +=anticlockwise and -=clockwise, but said that I had mine wrong, when I made no correlations in my first answer.

I KNEW that positive=counter-clockwise and etc..., but my first 'answer' wasn't correlating that, it was correlating the fact that the + and - values of torque determine the rotation directions...

[acp]

  what a lot of bollocks...

come on, stop waffling, the original poster asked if positive torque values equal clockwise direction and you told him    "Yes, the positive and negative torque values equate to the clockwise/counter-clockwise twists."  Now, if you claim that you weren't being specific, then why bother writing it in the first place when it is only going to confuse the guy? Goodness, is it so hard to admit you were wrong??

By the way, you were correlating in your original reply by dint of the ordering of your sentence, at any rate thats how 99.9% of people would have read it.

[tao]

what a lot of bollocks...

come on, stop waffling, the original poster asked if positive torque values equal clockwise direction and you told him    "Yes, the positive and negative torque values equate to the clockwise/counter-clockwise twists."  Now, if you claim that you weren't being specific, then why bother writing it in the first place when it is only going to confuse the guy? Goodness, is it so hard to admit you were wrong??

By the way, you were correlating in your original reply by dint of the ordering of your sentence, at any rate thats how 99.9% of people would have read it.

I agree in how it looks, I wasn't even going to write that first sentence, lol, seriously!

I wrote the second sentence first about repositioning to point 0,0 and something told me to add that torque values sentence before the repositioning one, which I did, and now look at what it caused hahaha! I have to admit, looking back at his original torque values question and my answer, it would certainly seem that I was correlating positive=clockwise etc as the answer to his question. I seriously didn't mean it that way, so, lets leave it at that, it was a sentence added in haste that has now spawned a nice little discussion, lol!!!

I would admit I was wrong, if I was, I don't lie... The only thing I now see that I was wrong about is in writing that sentence, while not re-reading his original question.

[ken_nyus]

Thanks alot guys for clearing that up for me.

Just to state it simply one more time...

negative torque values = clockwise twist
postive torque values = counter-clockwise twist

Thanks for the help, now I can do some more modeling...