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Export sketch as piecewise polyline.
brad_phelan
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It's been a while since I've written any featurescript. I'm looking for the following solution. I would like to be able to select N closed and open chains of sketch entities and with a provided tolerance tesselate them into N piecewise polylines and then either print them to the console or copy them to the clipboard. Is this relatively simple?
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Would be easier to export as DXF with "export splines as polylines" option
Not really. I want a simple tool I can use to generate me polylines I can paste directly into a c++ program as test data. Using the OnShape sketcher and having a tool that can copy the sketch data to the clipboard as a
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is what I would like to have. It would probably exporting DXF and then processing that DXF with another tool to get what I want but it would be nice to have an all in one UI driven by featurescript that would do this for me. I can't imagine this useful to anyone else but me ;)
You're not the only one who has a use for a tolerance based polyline script. When I did my Delaunay Triangulation script I settled for a basic global resolution subdivision script but there are times when I'll want more local curvature aware tolerancing for this and other scripts I'm working on. Export-import routines probably work for a lot of applications but it's definitely cleaner to keep everything at the feature level in my opinion.