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Getting complete Feature information

  • May 24, 2016
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Hey guys,

I'm trying to get a complete information about a feature(say extrude).

I've already got section(sketch) information. It wasn't hard at all.

Now I'm about to get properties of Extrude feature itself.

I mean these:

feature.PNG

Is it extrusion from sketch to some distance, or extrusion between planes, or sketch is a center plane for extrusion, and so on and so forth.

I did read user Guide for Object Toolkit and it seems, necessary information is stored in a Future Element Tree(14. Feature Element Tree, 18. Features).

Now I got features elements and their values:

element id: PRO_E_FEATURE_TYPE

element value: 917

element id: PRO_E_EXT_SURF_CUT_SOLID_TYPE

element value: 917

The question is, am I correct? If I do need information about feature, should I use Feature Element Tree for that?

If yes, where can I find description for this element IDs? Cause it's not clear for me what is PRO_E_FEATURE_TYPE and what means 917 for this element. I parsed the User guide, headers and couldn't find any description

Thank you in advance,

Artem


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Best answer by FV_01

Hi all,

Artem,

You'll need to get a feature elemtree with ProFeatureElemtreeExtract(...) and then get a reference to sketch(section) plane by accessing PRO_E_STD_SECTION element and then PRO_E_STD_SEC_PLANE element. It will give you ProReference to a parent surface.

You should take a look at TestExtrude.c in pt_examples  it has everything you'll need...

HIH.

Feliks.

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abursuk1-VisitorAuthor
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June 2, 2016

Hey,

Using empirical method I figured out which elements are crucial to determine general feature parameters.

Only one thing is still not clear to me: How can I determine on whether plane my feature was initiated.

E.g. I have sketch(section) with rectangle there. Using extrude feature I will get a cube.

Nice, Now I want to create a lesser cube on a face of existing one. Done!

How can I get now the information about whether face was used to create sketch(section) for the lesser cube?

I can imagine only one opportunity to get geometrical info: take it from sketch, because all the curves on sketch will be placed in a single plane(sketch plane).

The final goal for me is to get point in sketch, but not the boundary ones(which I can get from the sketch).

Thanks,

Artem

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FV_0117-PeridotAnswer
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June 6, 2016

Hi all,

Artem,

You'll need to get a feature elemtree with ProFeatureElemtreeExtract(...) and then get a reference to sketch(section) plane by accessing PRO_E_STD_SECTION element and then PRO_E_STD_SEC_PLANE element. It will give you ProReference to a parent surface.

You should take a look at TestExtrude.c in pt_examples  it has everything you'll need...

HIH.

Feliks.

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abursuk1-VisitorAuthor
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June 8, 2016

Hi Feliks,

Thanks for the answer, it seems what I was looking for!

PS:

Maybe you happen to know which elements represent boundary surfaces for extrude? In case I want to perform extrude till surface\face ?

Thanks,

Artem

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