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STP file export

STP file export

STP file export

(OP)
I have to get rid of part number and part body name during export (part body name is the same as part number).
I know several ways how to do that including VB but i would like to edit some file in Programs files directory for that.
I have to be sure that part number will not be shown in STP/IGES file.

Reason for that: Data publication. P/N just can not be shown.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Jenia Ladkov.

RE: STP file export

Way to do it by hand:
Change name prior to STP/IGES export. Name STP/IGES file same as changed name.
Exit CATPart, DO NOT SAVE.

Harold G. Morgan
CATIA, QA, CNC & CMM Programmer

RE: STP file export

(OP)
Scripting is the way. The same answers got from DS.

RE: STP file export

I have found that using Solid Edge and saving an assembly as an iges file "wipes" clean the individual part file names and reassigns a sequential numbered part name base on the assembly file name. An assembly named "Pump1" saved as an iges and then opened with Solid Edge or SolidWorks or other will open and populate the individual parts as "Pump1_0.par1, Pump1_1.par1, Pump1_2.par1". These individual parts may have been named "pump housing", "-315 o-ring", and "impeller" or part or drawing numbers in your companies system but after saved (translated) to iges, these names get dropped and replaced upon reopening.

I have found saving as .step files in Solid Edge does not replace these names when reopened as an assembly.

This may be CAD program specific at the translator step.

Hope this helps.

RE: STP file export

There's a significant problem with using IGES for this task, it breaks down all the solid bodies to sheet bodies. I consider that a show stopper personally.

Another approach is to do the STEP export from the assembly level, the STEP file will inherit the name of the top level file it was exported from. You can simply make a dummy part, add the file as an assembly component, then export. The STEP file will not show any name info of the component part.

Good luck!

RE: STP file export

(OP)
The same i can do with a script. Copy, create new part, paste as result and save it to desktop. File path also a PITA. Path can be seen in wordpad pc.

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