Importing a text file of x y z points

eoin_cannon

Hi
I can't find an answer here but does anyone know if it's possible to import a txt file of x y z points. Does OnShape have a different file format or anything? Solidworks uses .sldcrv which is just a renamed .txt file in a certain format. I've attached the file I want to import.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Eoin

andrew_troup

No such capability exists yet in Onshape.

steven_chandra

Hi, I'm just wondering if there are any news regarding importing X Y Z co-ordinates. This question was asked in August, wondering if they have added anything new since then that can support this. 

_Ðave_

@steven_chandra

andrew_troup said:

No such capability exists yet in Onshape.

Still the same.

eric_lau

Anything new here?

3dcad

These days it's best to create improvement request for voting. Choose IR gategory on right and create new if this doesn't exist already..

ilya_baran

There's no way to do it directly, but it is possible to upload a CSV file of XYZ data and create a custom feature that turns it back into points.  Let me know if this is interesting and I'll post an example.

emagdalenaC2i

You should check this FeatureScript: 3D Points

It allow you to import the X,Y, Z list of points as points or create splines or polylines

philip_thomas

Well - this one has been up for a while!

Super simple - reads an XYZ CSV file and passes a 3D spline through it.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f8191d0fd7fe9a488e8dcd15/w/29be675d29fa9f017b6fed6e/e/2de5c3146b997f177a4bd4e5




Here is the source code - super simple

        var points = [];

        for (var row in curveData)

            points = append(points, vector(row[0], row[1], row[2]) * meter);

        opFitSpline(context, id, {

                    "points" : points

                });

Have fun!

3dcad

@philip_thomas
I would like to see the code of your 'BOOM'-image creator that adds those images to your posts. 

jacques_spillmann

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/39876#Comment_39876

I've seen a version of your importer that allows CSV import containing multiple splines:

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/0640603950ebd22d78b15bb3/v/05027b8df6d9b3941de8227f/e/b784d87ed2c2d5fcbd773c5b

Is that an official Onshape release?

jacques_spillmann

looks like this is the one:

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a5566bc4a7c123d4958fd925/v/74ef42fd67330626670210c7/e/07d3a8c9750bc033aa654b39

It's really hard to navigate the featurescript search and find the original version, there are so many copies! Is there a trick to search for it?