Is there a way to save all .PRT files in a directory to .STEP files short of doing each one individually?

[manderson-3]

In order to communicate with an external program, I am needing to send out .STEP files.  This would not be a problem for one or two parts but when I have an assembly with several hundred saving each part individually will be very time consuming.  Is there a way to get around this short of buying yet another program as a go between?

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[TomU]

When you save an assembly you have the option of either saving all the parts as a single file or saving each file separately.  Generally a single STEP file for the entire assembly should be sufficient, but if you really need separate files, Creo will gladly create them.

[mender]

For this specific case, I second Tom's suggestion.  For the general case of batched operations (generally export or print, but could be other things) on a large number of files, see https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS139340 for information on batch mode.  You could also contemplate constructing a trail file, by doing

File>Open>part1, Export it, Close Window, Erase Not Displayed

then taking the output trail.txt from that, extracting the part that is the action (as opposed to the trail header), and do a shell script using foreach and sed and cat >> to make a big trail file that does each part in turn.

[Mahesh_Sharma]

Hi Matt,

Did you get the answer of your query from any of the above replies to post? Reply from Tom and Matt has relevant information for your question.