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May 4, 2010
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save asm. as a .OBJ (wavefront file)

Gurus!



I am trying to save a large assembly as an .obj file. Asm. contains
many hundreds of quilts (cosmetic features, imported copy geom., etc).
Finding and selecting them all in a nice reasonable fashion is what I am
looking for insight into. I can't believe I have to select hundreds of
these one at a time!





Thanks in advance



Dave Martin

Sr. Industrial Designer

The Toro Company

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bfrandsen10-Marble
10-Marble
May 5, 2010
David,
you can use the SearchTool (Ctrf+F) for this. Switching to the Search
Tools History tab and mark Rule "All" will allow you to find all Quilts in
one go.
If your quilts have been given names you can also use the Attributes tab's
Name rule, but Quilts do not have a default name, so most likely this will
not give you what you need.

Good question. I now learned that Quilts can be exported to .obj. Thought
is was only solid geometry that could be exported to a tesselated format.

Regards,
Bjarne



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Gurus!

I am trying to save a large assembly as an .obj file. Asm. contains many
hundreds of quilts (cosmetic features, imported copy geom., etc). Finding
and selecting them all in a nice reasonable fashion is what I am looking
for insight into. I can?t believe I have to select hundreds of these one
at a time!


Thanks in advance

Dave Martin
Sr. Industrial Designer
The Toro Company

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amedina1-Visitor
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May 5, 2010
In a related issue/topic. Unnecessary knowledge really. I don't know how
good you are with programming but you could make it into a map key. Even if
it is not a single click map key, it would still help you out. let me
explain;

For a large assembly, I figure that at some point some assemblies are so
massive that very few programs out there can actually open the single OBJ
file. However if you import one by one the parts you want, it is easy to
open a dir full of OBJ files from say Blender or any other program that
supports it. I usually run it and just watch the computer look like I'm
doing something important. So the key is to have good OBJ resolution but to
export part by part so that solids stay solids and parts are not
automatically created just because a solid is separated in three pieces. It
helps with other stuff too.

regards,

Alfonso



On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Bjarne Frandsen <->wrote:

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> David,
> you can use the SearchTool (Ctrf+F) for this. Switching to the Search Tools
> History tab and mark Rule "All" will allow you to find all Quilts in one go.
> If your quilts have been given names you can also use the Attributes tab's
> Name rule, but Quilts do not have a default name, so most likely this will
> not give you what you need.
>
> Good question. I now learned that Quilts can be exported to .obj. Thought
> is was only solid geometry that could be exported to a tesselated format.
>
> Regards,
> Bjarne
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> Gurus!
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> I am trying to save a large assembly as an .obj file. Asm. contains many
> hundreds of quilts (cosmetic features, imported copy geom., etc). Finding
> and selecting them all in a nice reasonable fashion is what I am looking for
> insight into. I can’t believe I have to select hundreds of these one at a
> time!
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> Thanks in advance
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> Dave Martin
> Sr. Industrial Designer
> The Toro Company
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mf2001_9812-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
May 26, 2010

Quilt can be exported in the .obj format ?

Please, could you explain how to do this?

Thank you very much

Marta



David,
you can use the SearchTool (Ctrf+F) for this. Switching to the Search
Tools History tab and mark Rule "All" will allow you to find all Quilts in
one go.
If your quilts have been given names you can also use the Attributes tab's
Name rule, but Quilts do not have a default name, so most likely this will
not give you what you need.

Good question. I now learned that Quilts can be exported to .obj. Thought
is was only solid geometry that could be exported to a tesselated format.

Regards,
Bjarne



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Gurus!

I am trying to save a large assembly as an .obj file. Asm. contains many
hundreds of quilts (cosmetic features, imported copy geom., etc). Finding
and selecting them all in a nice reasonable fashion is what I am looking
for insight into. I can?t believe I have to select hundreds of these one
at a time!


Thanks in advance

Dave Martin
Sr. Industrial Designer
The Toro Company

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bfrandsen10-Marble
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June 2, 2010
Add the Quilt to the Export Group in the Wavefront Export dialog. Use
Query select to get the actual quilt instead of the part.
Then select a CSYS for export reference.
/Bjarne



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Quilt can be exported in the .obj format ?
Please, could you explain how to do this?
Thank you very much
Marta


David,
you can use the SearchTool (Ctrf+F) for this. Switching to the Search
Tools History tab and mark Rule "All" will allow you to find all Quilts in

one go.
If your quilts have been given names you can also use the Attributes tab's

Name rule, but Quilts do not have a default name, so most likely this will

not give you what you need.

Good question. I now learned that Quilts can be exported to .obj. Thought
is was only solid geometry that could be exported to a tesselated format.

Regards,
Bjarne



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Gurus!

I am trying to save a large assembly as an .obj file. Asm. contains many
hundreds of quilts (cosmetic features, imported copy geom., etc). Finding
and selecting them all in a nice reasonable fashion is what I am looking
for insight into. I can?t believe I have to select hundreds of these one
at a time!


Thanks in advance

Dave Martin
Sr. Industrial Designer
The Toro Company

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