Macro for Curve Drawing

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Hello everyone,

Here's my problem, I'd like to draw the points of passage of a curve according to coordinates.

the idea being to have an excel file in which I enter the coordinates of the different points and that via a macro the drawing of the points is done automatically in a Solidworks sketch.

Having never put my nose into macro production, I am calling on you to know if there is a file of this type because for the moment I have not found anything or if I will be forced to rate all the points one by one which annoys me.

Thanks in advance!

Jérémy

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Hello

The CurveData tool from the myCADtools suite does the job

Cdlt


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See this tutorial among others

which I think will solve your problem

http://www.lynkoa.com/contenu/video-tutorial-creating-curves-importing-point-data-text-file-solidworks

@+ ;-)

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No need for "third-party tools" to do this,

in a PRT Part:

Insert/Curve/Curve Passing By... XYZ

http://help.solidworks.com/2016/french/solidworks/sldworks/hidd_curve_in_file.htm

you can enter the data from Excel, then save your data in *.txt format with a space or tab separator.

Start data from the first row (so no column headers)

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Thank you for your answers,

I didn't know the myCADtools tool, it's super efficient.

For the curve tool going through XYZ I had some problems, especially with the decimals that it didn't take into account...

Thank you again, subject closed!