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Exporting x,y,z points.

Exporting x,y,z points.

Exporting x,y,z points.

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We need to export points from a spline, the points need to be exported in order from start point to end point.

At the moment we create the points along the curve using a point set. We then use a UG supplied grip file called 'points2file' to export the points.
The grip file requires that you select each point individually in the correct order which can be very time consuming as many hundreds of points may be needed.
It is possible to select all of the points together by dragging a box round them but this exports them in a random order which is of no use.

Does anybody know of a quicker way of exporting these points in order?


Many Thanks.
David Nolan.

RE: Exporting x,y,z points.

I readily admit that I'm 'winging' it a bit here . . .

I know that Unigraphics has FEA pre-processing capabilities (although I haven't used them myself).  If you were to mesh a line element mesh on that splined line, you could then output it as any variety of commercial FEA packages.  If UG operates like every other FEA preprocessor that I know, it should output these nodes from one end to the other. They will be output with their x,y,z coordinates in a pretty clean format.  Even though you may not be interested in doing any FEA, this happens to be a pretty clean approach to getting this particular data.
I am pretty confident that this will work.
Brad

RE: Exporting x,y,z points.

Does anybody know of a grip file that will
extract x y z locations and userdefined attributes
from points to a textfile.

RE: Exporting x,y,z points.

hai dmn
  u try for a grip program to select all the points in the spline and u can export this points to a txt formate file
 i think my reply will meet ur req:

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