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Find over positioning instances on assembly design

Find over positioning instances on assembly design

Find over positioning instances on assembly design

(OP)
Hello everyone,
Is there anyway to find or to show over positioning instances in assembly (i.e. indicate if there are more than one instance of same part in the same position and orientation)? I have a huge assembly to check and this situation annoys me.

Best regards,

Richard.

RE: Find over positioning instances on assembly design

a script could go through the product structure and list all instance with their position relative to GPS, you can give a color to an instance if it is a duplicate position, or put the instance in a group, in noshow...

you could find many example of recursive script going through a structure, also retriving relative position to an instance is easy. Search in the forum...
You just have to convert that to GPS check FAQ560-1824: VERY Useful Catia VBA Functions
To check duplicate, you could use some info from FAQ560-1377: XYZ of point to a text file.
and do the action that you want to identify duplicate, check the forum, they were some request like that not long ago.

search for all pieces, put them together and voila.

If you need help with scripting, put your code together here and please tell us where you got it, it might help us to help you.

Cheers

Eric N.
indocti discant et ament meminisse periti

RE: Find over positioning instances on assembly design

If you're not into scripting (like me), a quick way to find duplicate/overlapping parts in an assembly is to use the CLASH anaylsis tool. Run the analysis BETWEEN ALL COMPONENTS, and then filter the results to CLASH only - look down the list for the same part in both columns.

Not as eleqant as a script, but a quick way to get find the duplicate parts.

RE: Find over positioning instances on assembly design

Good point for you Jackk. I like it better when I do not have to script it!

Eric N.
indocti discant et ament meminisse periti

RE: Find over positioning instances on assembly design

yep that a good point.

are you coming to LA for the convention?

Eric N.
indocti discant et ament meminisse periti

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