topic Re: Exporting Parasolid files in Inventor Programming Forum

Exporting Parasolid files

nfelixCXUGM — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:55:19 GMT

Hi,

Right now we are able to export PDF, DWG and Step. I want to be able to add Parasolid files (.x_b), should i add Parasolid to below code or something else? Hope i'm being clear.

checkpdfs = Nz(Me.chkPDFs, 0)
Checkdwgs = Nz(Me.chkDWGs, 0)
checkdxfs = Nz(Me.chkDXFs, 0)
checksteps = Nz(Me.chkSteps, 0)

Re: Exporting Parasolid files

WCrihfield — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:37:35 GMT

Hi @nfelixCXUGM. I am not sure what that code you are showing above is supposed to be doing, because I have never seen code exactly like that before, but I assume it must have something to do with exporting Inventor files to other file types. Are you calling some sort of custom Function to run with those lines of code? I do know that we can export model files to Parasolid Binary Files (.x_b) manually, so we should also be able to export them by code also. I have never needed to use those file types for anything before, so I am not super familiar with them. Which coding language are you using? (iLogic / VB.NET, VBA, C#, other)

Re: Exporting Parasolid files

Frederick_Law — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:33:10 GMT

Just try and see what happen.

We have no idea what Nz() is. So we won't know what it can do.

Re: Exporting Parasolid files

WCrihfield — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:02:38 GMT

Hi @nfelixCXUGM. Attached is a text file containing the code for an iLogic rule example you can try for exporting a model file to Parasolid Binary file (.x_b). Many of these iLogic code examples for exporting a native Inventor file type to some other type of file, using one of the 'TranslatorAddIns' that come installed in Inventor, are pretty similar, so I copied one of my other codes for exporting, then modified it a bit for exporting that file type. As far as I know there are only two options available for that scenario ('IncludeSketches' & 'Version'), so I included those two options in this code example. I set the 'IncludeSketches' option to True, and set the 'Version' option to 35, but you can change those to whichever values you want.