Curve Trough Free Points Enhancement

In most cases the "Curve Through Freepoints" is a good tool, would it
not be a lot more usefull if you could toggle it to do Curves or
Lines. I put this down as a enhacment request to SWX more than 2 years
ago but they must not see it as a priority enhancement.
The problem I have is that our electrical engineer supplies me with a
spreadsheet of XY co-ordinates (300-500 points), some bits of the data
are lines while other bits are curves. At the moment I use the
"3dpoints.swb" to create an undefined sketch of lines. I then convert
entities on to a plane and add some vertical and horizontal
constraints, change the curve portion to construction, add some more
lines to close the sketch then do auto dimension and base revolve. I
then extract the curve portion of data from the spread sheet and
insert this with "Curve Through Free Points", add some more lines to
close the sketch and cut revolve to finish the part.
Thats the way I have worked for ages creating these parts but the main
problem with this is the base revolve sketch is not driven by any
table data, this leaves the process prone to errors (accidentially
moving a point ect) and also very difficult to do any checking of the
finished part.
Does anybody have or can write a enhanced "Curve Through Free Points"
type of interface that will allow a sketch (LINES) to be driven from a
table?.

Regards

Brian

 

Please send me a sample data file and the corresponding sample part you want
to obtain and I'll see what I can do.
Might be free as it doesn't *look* complicated from your description, or a
few $ if it requires more than 1h work.

 

Thanks Philippe, I will send them to you on monday as I am now at home for
the weekend.

Regards
Brian