Extract cut list from drawing programatically using API (VB)

We are using SW2006 and need to extract the cut list of welded parts of
a drawing the same way we do for BOMs. There are examples in the API to
show how to do it for the BOMs themselves (i.e. 'Export BOMs to XML
Example (VB)' in the sldworksapi.chm help file) but there is nothing
similar for cut lists.

Is there any way to extract the cut lists items (cells of rows and
columns) from the table the same way we are already doing for BOMs?

Thanks in advance and regards.

 

Good question, which I'd like a reply to also. It's something that's been
at the back of my mind since we moved away from modelling fabrications as
assemblies.

It's not an issue for me at present, but we are planning to integrate BOM's
with MRP system at some point.

Regards,
John H

 

it should be almost the same code except in the following line swTable
will be set to your Cutlist.

ProcessTableAnn swApp, swModel, swTable, XMLfile

 

I've never tried to intercept the information from the CutList Table,
but I do think that in the part file you could iterate thru the feature
tree and read/store the properties of all of the CutList Items, then do
whatever you want with that data.

Ken