Exporting variables to csv, txt file or similar

Joey_Wood

Hello,

I have a large number of variables, the values of which are generated from the Measure Value featurescript (similar to Measure Distance). I would then like to export those variables to a separate program (specifically matlab for running analysis). Right now my workflow is to manually type each value each time I update the part studio. Obviously for large amounts of data this is extremely tedious and not a scalable approach. Does anyone have ideas for automating this process using featureScript? Attached is the sort of dataset I am working with. Each variable there is a coordinate in x,y,z generated using the Measure Value feature (Thank you Konstantin): https://cad.onshape.com/documents/77baa8153589a7fc5f289829/v/33ba34fba75bf5f4ba08ed63/e/181cb871f3008e6b885df46a.

Alex_Kempen

There isn't currently a way to generate an export directly using FeatureScript directly - you'd have to dive into the API for that. Accordingly, the easiest way is probably to write a custom FeatureScript which formats your data into a custom table, which would then allow you to copy and paste all of your data into the program of your choosing. To avoid having to manually enter all of your variable names into the table manually, you could write a custom version of the Measure value FeatureScript to collect the values of all of the created variables.

Specifically, you could change the Measure value FeatureScript to create a master variable that contains the relevant values created by the Measure value feature. Subsequent Measure value features would then be able to add their values to the master variable. You could then write a table feature that takes in the master variable automatically and formats the corresponding values for easy copy and pasting. You could also do this using attributes attached to dummy parts, which is what my Variable Library FeatureScript does in order to pass variables between part studios. Either method is fairy straightforward to implement, but it could be pretty challenging to users who are new to programming or FeatureScript in general.

konstantin_shiriazdanov

Yes, as Alex said creating a custom table should be a way to go for this, you just need to modify measure value feature to store the measurement info in the attribute or in the context variable with the known name.