24-Ruby III

Question

AutoIt batch processing example (discussion)

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
June 27, 2018
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Hi,

attached you can find the result of my todays exercise.

"Hot to use" information:
1.) create empty directory D:\PTC ... you need full access to this directory
2.) download Batch_Processing_2018-06-27.zip and save it to D:\PTC directory
3.) unzip Batch_Processing_2018-06-27.zip to get Batch_Processing sub-directory
4.) copy 1 line from config.pro file to your personal config.pro
5.) define environment variable MH_BATCH_PROCESSING and assign it the value D:\PTC\Batch_Processing
6.) launch Creo 2.0
7.) type dd to run mapkey
8.) mapkey dd starts batch_processing.exe
9.) batch_processing.exe collects the list of drawings located in working directory and displays it in Notepad
10.) user can remove unwanted files from the list and save modified file mylist.txt
11.) batch_processing.exe creates trail file mytrail.txt and plays it in Creo environment
12.) trail file creates PDF file for every drawing

1_Batch_Processing_2018-06-27.zip

General

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MartinHanak

Author

24-Ruby III

@Fortitude444,

I am not sure If I remember your user name correctly. You can test my exercise result, if you want 🙂

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RolandRaytchev

21-Topaz I

Hi Martin,

I am sorry but here I need to do some remarks here to your post.

If you share some thing with other users in the community - I do not think that to share only the excutible files (here ziped the asyncronous toolkit program - exe) is the best approach. There are a lot of security reasons not to share executible file here in the community. PTC could not issue a guarantee that it is secure!

So, if you want to help customers with your post you need more then to share with the community also the source code / or the part of source code wich is is relevant to the issue.

So if you want to do some advirtising of some tool which your created , of course you can mention it here, but let it downlaod form other location which is outside the PTC area.

Many thanks in advance

Regards

Roland

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MartinHanak

Author

24-Ruby III

@RolandRaytchev wrote:

Hi Martin,

I am sorry but here I need to do some remarks here to your post.

If you share some thing with other users in the community - I do not think that to share only the excutible files (here ziped the asyncronous toolkit program - exe) is the best approach. There are a lot of security reasons not to share executible file here in the community. PTC could not issue a guarantee that it is secure!

So, if you want to help customers with your post you need more then to share with the community also the source code / or the part of source code wich is is relevant to the issue.

So if you want to do some advirtising of some tool which your created , of course you can mention it here, but let it downlaod form other location which is outside the PTC area.

Many thanks in advance

Regards

Roland

Hi Roland,

I know that you are PTC Toolkit expert. I did not know you were following the PTC Community website 🙂

If I understand you well, you mean that publishing my exercise results is forbidden.

Below you can find my answers to your remarks.

1.] I understand that publishing exe file is not good idea. I hope that next time I avoid it.

2.] Batch_Processing_2018-06-27.zip file contains batch_processing.au3 AutoIt source code.

Anyone can ignore the batch_processing.exe file and compile the batch_processing.au3 file using AutoIt software (see https://www.autoitscript.com).

3.] batch_processing application is AutoIt script ... application has nothing to do with PTC Toolkits

4.] I do not understand the meaning of following sentence.

So, if you want to help customers with your post you need more then to share with the community also the source code / or the part of source code wich is is relevant to the issue.

5.] I am not doing any advertising in this discussion.

Have a nice day

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Jaime_Lee

Community Manager

Hi, @RolandRaytchev

@MartinHanak has been a contributor to the PTC Community for a long time. He is fully aware of our Terms of Service regarding file uploads and we have never had any issue with his submissions being corrupt.

We also do not allow Spam on the community so his post is not considered an advertisement. This is a useful post to help other users with AutoIt batch processing.

I will be removing your comment and all the replies to Martin's helpful post in 24 hours as this is interrupting the flow of information and the purpose of this forum.

I appreciate you looking out for the community. In the future, feel free to use "Notify Moderator" if you feel a post is against the Terms of Service.

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sparulekar

1-Visitor

I tried the steps you mentioned above. When i press 'dd' mapkey the notepad which opens up does not show any drawing files(Notepad is blank). I have set the working directory whixh has about 4 drawing files in it.

I have the following questions regarding AutoIt:

1. Can this also be used to convert part files to STEP, PDF and DWG format?

2. Where can i get online resources to learn AutoIt?(im not a programmer)

3. After converting my part files to the required format, I need to change the name according to the REV no. and tool name. Is it possible to automate this using AutoIt so that i dont have to manually change the names after creating the file in the required format?

Thanks in advance

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MartinHanak

Author

24-Ruby III

@sparulekar wrote:

I tried the steps you mentioned above. When i press 'dd' mapkey the notepad which opens up does not show any drawing files(Notepad is blank). I have set the working directory whixh has about 4 drawing files in it.

I have the following questions regarding AutoIt:

1. Can this also be used to convert part files to STEP, PDF and DWG format?

2. Where can i get online resources to learn AutoIt?(im not a programmer)

3. After converting my part files to the required format, I need to change the name according to the REV no. and tool name. Is it possible to automate this using AutoIt so that i dont have to manually change the names after creating the file in the required format?

Thanks in advance

Hi,

to be able to use the tool, you need some knowledge.

1.] AutoIt is programming tool, you can do anything you want with this tool

2.] https://www.autoitscript.com

3.] go back to https://community.ptc.com/t5/System-Administration/PTC-Creo-Distributed-Batch/m-p/596345/highlight/false#M24714