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Needing A Macro That Will Detect, Color and Create A Level for a Shape Surface

mgaultEUT5R — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 14:40:25 GMT

Hello,

I am needing a macro that will run through a design and detect, color and create a level for a certain type of surface design. The reason is because I can spend hours color coating what I call "Nibs" in the part design to prep it for programming it which then only takes seconds to do. Any help with this would be much appreciate it. I have attached a PDF of the design

Re: Needing A Macro That Will Detect, Color and Create A Level for a Shape Surface

ondrej.mikulec — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:23:59 GMT

Hi,
here is a related topic:
Solved: Re: Get color of model - Autodesk Community - PowerMill

Re: Needing A Macro That Will Detect, Color and Create A Level for a Shape Surface

mgaultEUT5R — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:19:28 GMT

I appreciate your help but unfortunately I don't think I may have explained myself that well. What I need is for a macro to detect surfaces that are something like conical i guess you would say like the PDF and select them all, color them and then place them in a level. Sometimes I have to do thousands and it takes for ever to have to clean the file up.

Re: Needing A Macro That Will Detect, Color and Create A Level for a Shape Surface

ondrej.mikulec — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 21:29:20 GMT

Then I am not sure whether this is achievable with a macro.
Or you can look at the model properties and if you are lucky those "Nibs" could have particular component names.

Re: Needing A Macro That Will Detect, Color and Create A Level for a Shape Surface

Sean570 — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 22:26:15 GMT

This is possible if these conical surfaces are at consistent angles, or if you don't have other surfaces with that angle of draft. You just risk grabbing wrong surfaces which have the same draft angle also. Could you make use of a hole featureset instead of creating a new level? Is the end goal to machine these surfaces with a certain strategy?