Batch Export VB Journal Questions

[mjm744]

I'm VB illiterate, and had a couple of quick feasibility questions.

I'm using the batch PDF script (cyclePartFiles_pdf.vb) from this thread:

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=292978

I'm very impressed by what it does, and it would help us greatly if I could get it to work for how we detail things.

Is it possible to modify this to work with the master model method of detailing? When I have an assembled drawing file, it will stop scanning the directory for files when it gets to one.

Also is it possible to get this to export DXF either through 2d exchange or the autocad dxf in nx9+?

Thanks in advanced.

 

[cowski]

The journal code has been updated since that previous thread. Here is a link to the newer version; in the zip file there is a journal named "export_pdf_test_all_parts_in_folder.vb" - this is the one that you should try.

www.nxjournaling.com

 

[mjm744]

Hi Cowski,

Thanks very much for the help. I tried that out on a few designs and it worked perfectly in every case except when the part assembled in to the drawing was named similarly:

This would be the .prt assembled in to the .drw.prt.

Export folder: C:
1 21-22244-10000.drw.prt
C:\size 9 design\21-22244-10000.drw.prt

2 21-22244-10000.prt
open error: File already exists

Accompanied by this error:

 

[mjm744]

I figured that out, I just got rid of the extra period, and it worked fine. (1000.drw.prt->1000drw.prt)

Now I just need to figure out how to make this work for DWG/DXF.

 

[mjm744]

Cowski,

Are there any existing journals like the all_parts_in_folder PDF one, but for DXF/DWG?

The closest thing I could find is this thread, but I couldn't get it to work.

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=393235

 

[cowski]

Are there any existing journals like the all_parts_in_folder PDF one, but for DXF/DWG?

Not that I know of.

www.nxjournaling.com

 

[mjm744]

Alright, thanks for the help.