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January 17, 2009
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Need help importing coordinates

  • January 17, 2009
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I am on a team competing in the RWDC and I'm having trouble importing coordinates from a .txt file into pro/e, and I have no idea how to go about doing this. The coordinates below are what I'm trying to import, which is an airfoil profile.

anonymous wrote:

1.00000000 0.00000000 0.99799331 0.00036522 0.99198809 0.00145219 0.98202615 0.00323861 0.96816880 0.00569834 0.95048690 0.00881433 0.92920588 0.01237637 0.90451466 0.01645622 0.87648374 0.02123403 0.84556226 0.02680163 0.81180321 0.03308275 0.77537373 0.03996767 0.73699103 0.04733843 0.69648100 0.05519045 0.65449658 0.06339765 0.61134464 0.07179496 0.56702868 0.08033999 0.52256617 0.08829137 0.47741597 0.09585161 0.43302357 0.10200580 0.38857262 0.10745148 0.34555731 0.11138214 0.30356427 0.11408964 0.26313877 0.11529117 0.22456275 0.11508254 0.18814776 0.11339912 0.15455522 0.10978344 0.12344136 0.10437932 0.09543672 0.09649843 0.07075211 0.08608142 0.04950788 0.07367000 0.03190809 0.05965034 0.01796495 0.04519710 0.00803419 0.03097149 0.00201450 0.01575134 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00201122 -0.00872928 0.00804129 -0.01810995 0.01807760 -0.02690123 0.03186015 -0.03493114 0.04952337 -0.04272818 0.07080405 -0.04909225 0.09555106 -0.05435719 0.12348744 -0.05898124 0.15438928 -0.06246153 0.18837516 -0.06540494 0.22456620 -0.06779466 0.26300815 -0.06952412 0.30341815 -0.07071256 0.34549305 -0.07121973 0.38890269 -0.07084584 0.43279120 -0.06970918 0.47772669 -0.06728644 0.52232870 -0.06423813 0.56722231 -0.06025593 0.61118977 -0.05600225 0.65454600 -0.05134065 0.69654128 -0.04650305 0.73690182 -0.04149645 0.77552429 -0.03623413 0.81169896 -0.03109746 0.84552700 -0.02595276 0.87659483 -0.02104637 0.90450110 -0.01657841 0.92923350 -0.01250117 0.95048354 -0.00891788 0.96811806 -0.00583042 0.98199079 -0.00332218 0.99197665 -0.00148319 0.99799150 -0.00037147 1.00000000 0.00000000

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    Kevin20101-Visitor
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    January 17, 2009
    Change the file to a .pts file. Delete the last row since it is a duplicate of the first row and add a third column to the text file and enter zero on each row to get the data in x, y, and z coordinates. Create the points using the Offset Coordinate System Datum Point tool. Select the coordinate system and import the points from the .pts file. You can then create a datum curve feature through the whole array of points.
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    ptc-22427191-VisitorAuthor
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    January 17, 2009
    Ok, I added the extra "0" column and saved it as a .pts file. I opened the model I needed to add the points to, inserted the offset coordinate points system, and clicked on import at the bottom, but when I went to the folder where I saved it, it did not show up. Why is it doing this?
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    Kevin20101-Visitor
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    January 17, 2009
    What program did you use to create the .pts file? I used Notepad. When you save the file set the Save as type to all files and the Ecoding is set to ANSI. If the Save as type was set to Text Documents it probably saved the file as *.pts.txt. To check open the folder with the file and select Tools>Folder Options, select the View tab and uncheck Hide extension for know file types.
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