Ok I have searched and searched for this and I cannot find anything it is possible in AutoCAD but I cannot find a way to automate it in Inventor or actually even do it in inventor, what I would like is to be able to get a "Total Linear" cut length of a sheet metal part - all perimeters of cuts, holes, what ever shows up in the flat pattern I would use this info for quoting of parts that I draw currently I have to create a flat pattern save to AutoCAD as dwg or dxf clean up the file so only the Items that the laser will be cutting are in the drawing, then I have a code I found in the AutoCAD customize discussion group that will allow me to select a bunch of enities and it computes the total length of all lines arcs circles ..... that I select then I take that value and type it into a "User Defined" sketched symbol in my IDW. if anyone knows of any way to get this info using inventor that is easy please help.
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