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12-Amethyst
September 22, 2016
Question

Automatic name generation in "Assembly Save A Copy"

  • September 22, 2016
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Dear all,

we quite often receive some CATIA CAD-data from our customers.

In Creo3 it's no problem to open the CATIA files and to work with it. But we have decided to save the CATIA data which we receive into some Creo-files. Because this is easier to work with and generates less work-space...

The CATIA-files quite often have a lot of smaller parts in it, and when we want to save a Creo copy of the CATIA-files, we have to rename all of these files.
We rename these files with a number in it, but it takes a lot of manual work to rename these files by hand.

2016-09-22 17_00_17-Assembly Save A Copy.jpg

Now my question is, if somebody knows a way to do this renaming in a automatic way?

I've tried to do this by use of "File -> Save" and "File -> Load" (in the "Assembly Save A Copy"-window). But this doesn't seem to work when the "Action" is on "Extract"...

Can anyone help me with this? Because this will save us a lot of time!


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1-Visitor
September 22, 2016

I believe you'll find your answers in this thread:

Possibility for renaming using template box tool

Essentially, there is a way to export the list of component into excel, where you have better tools to automate the specification of new names.  You then import this list back into the save-as dialog box.

23-Emerald III
September 22, 2016

That's a keeper!! I'll be trying that one out next import.