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[#1]

Hi

I have an assembly with various parts in it.  I am trying to write a routine that will

1) systematically traverse the assembly and find parts that overlap,

2) where they overlap perform a sculpt operation on the parts

Whilst i can do this manually by edit>copy object>sculpt>select surface ...  i don't know how to mimic this programmatically. 

 So far i have coded to do it in a very hamfisted way by making a derived part file from the overlapping parts, opening the derived part file and performing the sculpt, replacing the original part in the assembly with its new derived-sculpted part and then continuing to traverse the assembly tree..  - it is super slow and uses lots of file operations.

Does anyone have any examples of a slick way to do this??

Thanks in advance

regards

Dan

[#2]

Hi mitcham_boy,

You might have better luck searching and asking questions of this type on the Inventor Customization forum:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor-Customization/bd-p/120

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com