I often have to export many files for toolpathing and it is very time consuming to go to each one and go through the options when saving an iges file and then save it, im looking for a way to streamline this process. It would be nice to just open the part and run a macro that would save the file in a folder (existing or it creates it, preferably called "toolpath").
Does anybody know of a macro that will do this? It would be nice to have it automaticly save all configurations of a part as .iges files and allow me to select the coordinate system that it is exporting with? Maybe have the ability to export only selected parts in an assembly also.
If somebody makes this macro could you either have an option to set the name format or make it in this format: YYYY-MM-DD_FILENAME.iges
Thanks in advance
Mike
Welcome to SOLIDWORKS forums Michael.
There are many macro on this forum which can save/export all configurations of an active part OR all part files in the specified folder as IGES. The file location is both ways i.e. you can fix it to desired location OR browse for it.
The file format can be tweaked as required. But I would say that to add something to the files name as all configs of same part can't be saved as YYYY-MM-DD_FILENAME.iges. OR only the last one would be saved.
I'm not sure if there any macro that allow you to select the co-ordinate system (hopefully that option an be added too).
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