How to make a tube layout (welded construction) on an imported one. STEP in SolidWorks?

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Hello 

Several times a year (sometimes months, etc.) I have to carry out a layout (measurement) of the tubes on welded frames (skid type, for the pharmaceutical industry , between 500 and 1000 tubes) 

The customer sent us the 3D to make it easier when it was launched into production, but only sent us in . STEP (confidentiality cough cough)

So I'm looking to be able to do an extraction of all the tubes to know their length one by one (extraction in a drawing or something else it doesn't matter, I want to do like the "list of welded parts" function present on drawing) 

Thank you in advance for your answers! (and sorry if a topic already exists but I can't find anything that looks like my problem..)

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Hello @meth3 

I don't understand where the confidentiality is

between the customer and the subcontractor 

If a customer wants the best service at the best price, it is in his interest to give the best information so that the work is done according to the rules of the art 

there is a kind of paleness 

@+ ;-)

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Thank you for your answer! 

 Yes, I agree with you. It's more a compatibility problem than a privacy issue, I wrote a bit quickly this morning.  

So often they don't work on solidworks, so the "root" of the . STEP is not solidworks (and they don't want to redraw their models, which I understand..)

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Hello @meth3 

Normally if you have a SW step you offer to isolate the components piece by piece. Each part becomes an SLDPRT if you wish  and you can also do the function recognition afterwards.

I did this recently on this forum for a colleague with a metal frame. If it's just to measure you can also use Edrawing

Kind regards

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 @meth3

just ask them already

what log does he work with

and then to see which is the best gateway for SW

It is also possible that he already has the list speed according to their log.

A phone call or an email often brings very good results 

it's for the good of both parties 

@+;-)

 

@+

 

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Thank you for your answers @Zozo_mp @gt22 

I have already tried your method, function recognition determines an extrusion and not a welded construction.  

I'll see it with them, thank you! 

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If the part once retrieved in SW is multibody, just by transforming it into a mechanically welded part (just click on the "Welded construction" icon) you can get a list of bodies grouped by identical shape.

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Thank you for your answer @stefbeno 

So yes indeed, it works but it just groups me the bodies (the screws, the identical caps..)  

and I manage to make a nomenclature of these grouped parts but just an article number and a quantity are displayed in the table

So, starting from there, would it be possible to take out the "visualization cube" "minimum rectangular volume of the room" from each room?  (in a nomenclature or whatever)

If the announced volume is for example 40x40x1248, we know that it is a square tube of 40x40 and its length 1248mm, more than to add.  

Thank you!

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In automatic, I don't know but with the manual, you just have to right-click on a body of each "folder".
The dimensions of the cubes are actually accessible in the table of mechanically welded elements.

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Via a macro, it is feasible, or via a software made by a specialist (@d.roger ) see this topic (automation bounding box):

https://www.lynkoa.com/forum/mise-en-plan/automatisation-en-masse-de-la-bounding-box-dimension-hors-tout?page=0#answer-743532

 

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Thank you, I'll try this, I'll get back to you! 

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So I'm coming back to you, after many tries, I can't do it...  

I manage to get the overall dimensions of my piece in class as on its first program but the 2nd and 3rd program, I dry out.

I can't export a .csv file to get the parts listing 

Thank you anyway I will continue to look for another solution 

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Hello

To create your csv file you can use the MS-DOS commands, look HERE. 

Kind regards