Data Point Export

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Subject: Data Point Export




AUTHOR: Christopher Sprock Post Date: January 21, 2010
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This could be a simple Pro/E question, as I am not a regular user. I would like to know how to extract point locations from a surface in Pro/E. How is this done?

I need to be able to click on the surface, using the datum point tool, and then extract the position (x,y,z) from those locations. Does Pro/E have the functionality to do this?

What I have done so far is create one single datum point. This point was then patterned a couple hundred times with a repeating distance. These points represent the location that I would like to extract the position data from. At this point I am not sure how to "export" the position data. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[aafuni]

There is probably a better way, but you could save as copy as an iges file (.igs) and select just the datum points you want. Iges is basically a list of coordinates. You will probably want something that can read the file for you though, to extract the data. You will end up with a file with a bunch of data including some lines that will look like:

116,0D0,0D0,0D0,0,0,1,21;
116,0D0,0D0,1D0,0,0,1,25;

Any of these lines starting with 116 is a line defining a point. The 0D0,0D0,0D0 part is the coordinate, here it is (0,0,0) and (0,0,1). You can inport it into excel or another program starting at the line where the coordinates start and have it delemate by "," and have it strip off the D0.

Like I said there is most likely a better way, but I have never tried to export a mesh of point coordinates.

 

[cadcamguy]

use your patterned points then iges it out .. should still be a datum and points only option.. not really sure with newer version.


I'd check over at mcadcentral .. someone posted a batch file to extract the values ... brian atkins

http://www.mcadcentral.com/proe/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=23838&KW=batch+file+point+export