Exporting a cross section of geometry in Excel / measure thickness of part in Creo

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Hello everyone,
 
I hope you can help me with a problem I´m currently having. I wasn't able to solve it after many hours of searching and trying, thus I need your help.
 
I need to measure the thickness of a cut geometry. It looks like this

I now want to determine the max and min thickness of this body. Of course I can use the measurement tool and go through of all pounts. But thats very error-prone and time consuming. Is there a way, that Creo can show me the min an max thickness?
 
Or can I somehow export the cutted surface in geometry points (x,y-axis), so that I can import them into Excel and do the calculations there then. I was able to make a curve of the cutted surface, but I don`t know what to do with it?

Hope you can help me,
sincerely,
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TomD.inPDX · Answer

It is probably still more work than you want, but you can string points along a curve with patterns.

If you isolate the curves and points, you can export the file to iges, and the file will have the point coordinates in there as text.

I would consider using Creo to offset surfaces and determine the approximate minimum and maximum thickness by visual interrogation.

Creo 3 is suppose to have this built in for injection molded plastic evaluation. Don't know much about it but from what I understand, it is part of the core product.

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