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manderson-31-Visitor
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September 6, 2016
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Is there a way to save all .PRT files in a directory to .STEP files short of doing each one individually?

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In order to communicate with an external program, I am needing to send out .STEP files.  This would not be a problem for one or two parts but when I have an assembly with several hundred saving each part individually will be very time consuming.  Is there a way to get around this short of buying yet another program as a go between?


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TomU23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
September 6, 2016

When you save an assembly you have the option of either saving all the parts as a single file or saving each file separately.  Generally a single STEP file for the entire assembly should be sufficient, but if you really need separate files, Creo will gladly create them.

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mender12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
September 6, 2016

For this specific case, I second Tom's suggestion.  For the general case of batched operations (generally export or print, but could be other things) on a large number of files, see https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS139340 for information on batch mode.  You could also contemplate constructing a trail file, by doing

File>Open>part1, Export it, Close Window, Erase Not Displayed

then taking the output trail.txt from that, extracting the part that is the action (as opposed to the trail header), and do a shell script using foreach and sed and cat >> to make a big trail file that does each part in turn.

Mahesh_Sharma
Mahesh_Sharma22-Sapphire I
22-Sapphire I
September 12, 2016

Hi Matt,

Did you get the answer of your query from any of the above replies to post? Reply from Tom and Matt has relevant information for your question.

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