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How to batch measure surface area of multiple parts, export to file?

  • March 5, 2019
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I'm still learning Creo 3.0 and this forum.  I have about two hundred part files that I want to measure the surface area of but I want to avoid manually measuring each.  I hope there is a feature where I can batch measure the surface area of each part and export the result into a table with two columns: part file name, surface area

 

Any hints please?

Best answer by pausob

There are probably commercially available solutions to this problem - eg. NitroCell.

And there may be Creo extensions that can handle this.

 

it might be doable using pro/batch and modelcheck.

There are also tools published on this forum that automate tasks by manipulating and replaying trail files (search trailmaker).

If you have some programming skills, there is also this open-source solution called Creo|SON (you could run that from excel VBA script and store the results into the worksheet)

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19-Tanzanite
March 6, 2019

There are probably commercially available solutions to this problem - eg. NitroCell.

And there may be Creo extensions that can handle this.

 

it might be doable using pro/batch and modelcheck.

There are also tools published on this forum that automate tasks by manipulating and replaying trail files (search trailmaker).

If you have some programming skills, there is also this open-source solution called Creo|SON (you could run that from excel VBA script and store the results into the worksheet)

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    JZazzi1-VisitorAuthor
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    March 6, 2019

    Thank you for the ideas.  I like the idea of CreoSon and I'll give it a try.  I also searched for trailmaker but the two threads I found have download links that no longer work.  Is there a better place to look for this tool?

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    March 6, 2019

    Not sure... you checked the link to dropbox / and various messages in this thread:

    Trailmaker 0.3

    However, it seems with trailmaker, you'd still face the task of compiling the results stored in individual output files.

    If you choose to use the Creo|SON tool, it'd be great to hear how that worked out for you.

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