nateconn
Mechanical
- Nov 2, 2011
- 7
thread561-314774
I read the thread referenced above and it includes a journal that almost does exactly what I need. It generates a comma delimited list of point attribute 'NM' followed by the x, y, z coordinates. I am wondering how to modify it so that instead of the point attribute it will return the owning component filename as well as a component attribute.
The reason I am trying to do this is I have a number of assemblies with the same dozen or so components used in hundreds of places. To build these assemblies in reality we have a robot that basically installs the component based on coordinates given to it. It's a similar process to a pick and place machine used to build circuit cards. We have the components as individual parts each with a reference set that includes a point the machine will use. Also in the assembly each component has an attribute called 'REF' for a reference designator for each component, such as A1, A2, B1, ETC.
So I would like to have a journal generate of list of the points with comma delimited values shown below:
<component file name>,<Component REF Attribute>,<x>,<y>,<z>
for example I could get the journal to produce a list like this:
part1.prt,A1,0.01,0.02,0.00
part1.prt,A2,0.04,0.12,0.10
part1.prt,A3,-0.01,0.62,0.00
part2.prt,C4,-0.81,0.62,0.00
part2.prt,C5,0.91,0.062,0.1100
...
In the thread referenced at the top that journal Cowski created works except its only looking for an attribute associated with the point, not the point's owning object.
I read the thread referenced above and it includes a journal that almost does exactly what I need. It generates a comma delimited list of point attribute 'NM' followed by the x, y, z coordinates. I am wondering how to modify it so that instead of the point attribute it will return the owning component filename as well as a component attribute.
The reason I am trying to do this is I have a number of assemblies with the same dozen or so components used in hundreds of places. To build these assemblies in reality we have a robot that basically installs the component based on coordinates given to it. It's a similar process to a pick and place machine used to build circuit cards. We have the components as individual parts each with a reference set that includes a point the machine will use. Also in the assembly each component has an attribute called 'REF' for a reference designator for each component, such as A1, A2, B1, ETC.
So I would like to have a journal generate of list of the points with comma delimited values shown below:
<component file name>,<Component REF Attribute>,<x>,<y>,<z>
for example I could get the journal to produce a list like this:
part1.prt,A1,0.01,0.02,0.00
part1.prt,A2,0.04,0.12,0.10
part1.prt,A3,-0.01,0.62,0.00
part2.prt,C4,-0.81,0.62,0.00
part2.prt,C5,0.91,0.062,0.1100
...
In the thread referenced at the top that journal Cowski created works except its only looking for an attribute associated with the point, not the point's owning object.
