Automatic sat from spreadsheet

[Anonymous]

how difficult would it be to set up a spreadsheet to drive a skeletal assembly, then automatically produce a sat file to import into autocad? im thinking that the user will not need to touch inventor, maybe fill in the spreadsheet, save it to a location where a copy of IV will pick it up and spit out the sat file to another location...

this way many users could use a bank of spreadsheets for what they want and get the models into autocad with just 1 IV licence

is this fantasy???

[Anonymous]

i only want to know if anyone thinks its possible, im not asking anyone to do it (o:

[Anonymous]

In that case, yes...this is possible!

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[Anonymous]

just out of inerest, how many man hour would it take an epert to set up, (with nice UI's)

[Anonymous]

I don't really see where any UI would be needed. Wouldn't your Spreadsheet
template, just have the items listed, and the person would change the values
for the items and hit a simple button to create the sat.

The time really depends on how many entrees there were in the spreadsheet.
Are you planning on making assemblies or just parts?

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just out of inerest, how many man hour would it take an epert to set up,
(with nice UI's)

[Anonymous]

More than likeley just parts, (no need for assemblies because the output is just a dumb representation)

I would need some sort of UI because there could be over 100 parts. i suppose you could run a macro from autocad that would bring up a fileopen box pointing at the excel part folders