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Variant STEP Export using Skill

Juuls

Hello,

I'm looking for a way to export each variant to a seperate step-file. I have not found a custom solution to this problem,
so I tried to solve this problem using skill.

My idea was:

- reading the variant.lst and getting all variants and the associated components
- selecting the components with "axlAddSelectName("SYMBOL" l_names)"
- and export the step using a script, with the option: Parts -> "Selected and highlighted parts only"

The first strange behavior is, that the axlAddSelectName(...) always returns "nil" unless I call
axlSelectByName("SYMBOL" ...) and axlClearSelSet() before ...

But the more confusing behavior is, that all selected parts (selected with the function call) are deselected when the export menu is opened...

Is the a more simply solution for my problem? Or can anybody help, what to do, to keep the selection valid for the export process?

Thank you for your help in advance!

Regards,

Julian

  • in reply to John T

    Hi John,

    thanks for you reply. Unfortunately, this also does not support exporting step files that only contains the components of each variant.

    The "step_out" had the option to export only the highlighted components and therefore somehow worked with my skill script. The "3x_export" has a similiar feature: when you open the 3d canvas, you can select "selected options only", but this does not work with my skill script, even if I select the components instead of highlighting them.

    I would appreciate, if this would work as a built-in function. I can not imagine, that I am the only one, who has a use case for this. But since this is not possible yet, I'm still interested in any other advice.

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