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HarikrishnanR1-Visitor
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February 21, 2017
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Possible options to extract the CAD file information without opening in Creo.

  • February 21, 2017
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Dear Experts,

Please let me know, Can we extract the CAD model "Parameter values" (Description, Material, and Revision etc.)  as well as  model "associated parts" information ( family table instances, Drawing numbers etc.) which is stored in “Shared network drives OR Local drives”.?

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Information should be extracted by without opening the CAD model in Creo

Thanks,

Hari

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Mark_D1-Visitor
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February 24, 2017

This might be possible if the creo Workgroupmanager would work in the same way as the CATIA V5 WGM does. With the CATIA WGM for each Workspace-Object a XML-File is created. In this XML-File you have the complete Metainformation of the related CAD-Document.

In creo you have only one XML-File that contains all Metainformation from all CAD-Objects located in the Workspace. This file is located in your cache-directory and is named like ws.cache.<nr> (not one the ws.cache.content.<nr> Files). From this you can extract the needed Information.

To use this file you have to send the Files to your Workspace.

Markus

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    HarikrishnanR1-VisitorAuthor
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    February 27, 2017

    Thank you Markus!

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    BineshKumar12-Explorer
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    February 27, 2017

    One of my ex-colleagues wrote a toolkit program to read/write parameters without actually opening the file in Creo. However if I remember correctly, it still uses Creo in the background to read/write the values. If this is something you are interested, I can message you his contact details.

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      HarikrishnanR1-VisitorAuthor
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      February 27, 2017

      Hi Binesh, Thank you!

      Could you please share your colleagues contact information to harikrishnan-r@hcl.com

      Thanks

      Hari

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