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NiruSatya10-Marble
10-Marble
January 20, 2023
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Number of Holes as a Parameter in Part

  • January 20, 2023
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Can someone tell me what Relation should i use to create a Parameter that captures number of Holes in a Part.

 

If I use Hole command in a Part to make Holes [Not Extruded Cuts] and did patterns for few of them, I want Creo to capture Number of Holes including pattern members into a Parameter called NUMBER_OF_HOLES

 

@MartinHanak @tbraxton @KenFarley @TomU 

 

 

    Best answer by TomU

    No parameter currently exists with this value.  You would need to either count them using the Find tool or build some automation to count them for you.  (J-Link, VB, Toolkit, SmartAssembly, etc.)

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    23-Emerald IV
    TomU23-Emerald IVAnswer
    23-Emerald IV
    January 20, 2023

    No parameter currently exists with this value.  You would need to either count them using the Find tool or build some automation to count them for you.  (J-Link, VB, Toolkit, SmartAssembly, etc.)

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      MartinHanak24-Ruby III
      24-Ruby III
      January 21, 2023

      Hi,

      every pattern contains "dimension" representing number of instances.

      MartinHanak_0-1674290739733.png

      Therefore you can create relation which counts hole quantity,

      MartinHanak_1-1674290904876.png

       

       

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        NiruSatya10-MarbleAuthor
        10-Marble
        January 23, 2023

        For this I'll have to Manually feed this info into Relations and that's the current practice I'm following.

        But I'm looking for a way of Automatic Hole Feature Recognition into Parameters / Relations.

        tbraxton
        22-Sapphire II
        tbraxton22-Sapphire II
        22-Sapphire II
        January 23, 2023

        Without using one of the Toolkit APIs. The best option I can come up with to semi automate this would be to build a search query that will find all of the hole features and select them all with the search tool. There may be a way to extract the total number from that selection set for use in a relation using a mapkey. I have not done this specific task but have been able to use the query tool to create lists in selection that have been useful with mapkeys.

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