How to get Pipe Start and End from the pipes imported from .vue files?

[lokit.khemka]

I have a layer of pipes imported from .vue files and I need to extract the pipes Start and End Positions programtically similar to how I am able to do for models imported from Civil3D (.dwg) files. How can I do that using Navisworks API?

In case of the .dwg files, I get the following properties including "GeometryStartPoint" and "GeometryEndPoint".

I want the same for pipes in gray in the figure and the one highlighted in blue. They differ in source from above pipe, in this case, it is .vue, rather than .dwg.

Thank you for any help.

 

 

[timw3333]

You need to customize pipe property in .vue file to show start/end point.
Then you can see those properties in Smart 3D property category.
Otherwise all we can do with NavisWorks API is to get volume range of each pipe.

[lokit.khemka]

Thank for the reply. It seems that data is not present. So, can I at least extract mesh for the bodies using Navisworks API? @timw3333 

[timw3333 · Accepted solution]

Use BoundingBox function of ModelItem or ModelGeometry.

[lokit.khemka]

@timw3333  Can you elaborate a little? Because BoundingBox gives an  as below:

<Pipe_Item ItemName="Geometry">
            <BoundingBox>Min((-872.7531183868703692, -3530.0652093730595880, 1176.8433783988875803)), Max((-871.8572850200583844, -3529.1693760062471483, 1196.7564164862169491))</BoundingBox>
        </Pipe_Item>

as below. How can I extract mesh from that? Thank you.

[timw3333]

In your example data, the pipe is vertical started from 1176 ended at  1196. X,Y must be center point of min/max of X/Y.