Help with macro make a million dxfs

[vwdevotee]

I've got a stack of DDT requests sitting on my desk that's about 3 inches thick and was hoping for some help writing a macro to do the heavy lifting. I already have a macro that will go through a directory of parts and open them sequentially. I also have a macro to save an entire directory of drawings to DXF. What I need help with is the middle part. I need to have the macro select the largest surface of the part, then insert that view into a new drawing based on a defined template. Can that be done? Does anyone have any code snippets that could help? Thanks in advance.

 

[ctopher]

I don't know.
I'm not sure how you could find the largest surface to make a view. Depending on the orientation of the part = orientation of the view.
It could pick an internal surface and give you a weird view.

Chris, CSWA
SolidWorks 13
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[vwdevotee]

These are simple 2.5D parts. Basically gusset plates, bearing plates, and other such simple shapes. There's just a lot of them.

 

[ctopher]

From my experience, we did something similar.
It turned out to be quicker for us to generate each 3D model and drawing from scratch.
Once the first one is made, a template was created, then 'save as' new name. The parts were replaced using SW Explorer.

Chris, CSWA
SolidWorks 13
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[AnnaWood]

This is where you bring an intern in to help with a project like this....

Cheers,

Anna Wood
SW2014 SP2, Windows 7 x64

 

[handleman]

This looks like something I could probably help you out with, although these days I've mostly moved my macro-writing over from a pro-bono structure to a fee-based business model... Makes the wife a bit more amenable to me coding away from my real job...

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

 

[vwdevotee]

Thanks for the reply's all. I talked to my boss and we're looking at hiring it out, so I'm just writing a spec now. Thanks again.

Handleman, PM me your info and I'll try to get you on the distribution list.

 

[handleman]

I would PM you... However, that capability is not available on this forum.

engineerville is my spot on the gmail service though.

Hopefully that's clear enough for a human to decipher, but too complicated for a bot...

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

 

[loki3000]

hey handleman, any chance that you coud explain about a couple macros (not so easy ones preferrably) that you wrote, what do they to (so that i and others could have a couple of nice starter projects)? no need to paste the code, just a description.