Picking co-ordinates from sketch to dump to csv file

Stuart_Tod

Has anyone written a way of picking co-ordinates from a sketch that can be written to a .csv file or similar (ideally straight into Excel spreadsheet!)? I find myself needing to extract all the co-ordinate X,Y pairs from points along a curve (preferably with a mouse click) and having them recorded in a useable format for me to analyse in a spreadsheet. I'm presently doing it manually by clicking on each point and copy/paste the x,y from the measure tab at the bottom of the screen, one at a time. I have over 3000 data points to collect….

eric_pesty

I've use the "points to table" FS a few times for similar workflows, but only for a small number of items:

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/81cac0c3f1a3b3ac209c70d6/v/305b9fa86d6700be596736aa/e/5bcdafea538762bf6f6e89bc

GregBrown

I can imagine a lot of ways this might be done, and especially for the hint you gave us "extract all the co-ordinate X,Y pairs from points along a curve"
I am assuming you want to sample that edge (or curve) and extract those coordinates at the sampled points.

Here is a simple implementation that works for sketch entities as well as 3D curves. Coordinates returned are x,y,z.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/0cffa5477715a66fdbb82f8f/w/f580449b2189f854cea8f3a7/e/1891b92a55e54f21c73c0024

Stuart_Tod

@GregBrown Thanks! I'll try it out this morning. Looks very close to what I want.

Stuart_Tod

@eric_pesty , exactly what I needed! Thanks.