Exporting SWx CAD data as cartesian coordinates?

Hi everyone!

I have a part which I need to translate the vertices into a table of
cartesian coordinates. Does anyone know a way to do this in SWx?

Cheers,

Adam

 

depends on your definition of "vertices".
If you mean the vertices of the meshes (tesselation), you can easily
edit my free macro on http://swapi.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/objmtl-exporter/
to generate a text file in the format you need instead of a .obj file.
If you want only the points at corners of edges delimiting faces, then
I could write a macro for you. Should it work only on parts or also on
assemblies ?

 

Hi Philippe!

Thanks for your reply. Yes I only need the co-ordinates of the
corners of a part. It's to give to an optics specialist so he can
input into his system and optimise the design. (It's a lightpipe
btw). Thanks so much, I really am pretty lost when it comes to
coding.

Adam

 

I believe if you output to an IGES (it might be another neutral
format) towards the bottom of the file is are the XYZ coordinates of
any reference points you've created. So if you add points to your
vertices of interest you should be able to read them by opening the
IGES ans an ascii text file. Of course this could all be bs since I
haven't tested it myself.