Creating Assembly Hierarchy from Excel and Script

Altair Forum User

Hi Experts,

 

I want to automate the assembly creation, I can go in 2 ways.

1. Create an assembly hierarchy in excel file and use the script to implement in my hm file.

2. Create a script to create the assembly hierarchy in hm itself using the user input (selecting the sub-assemblies and components together to form an assembly).

Which option would be easier and feasible.

 

I am just a beginner in TCL.

Thanks in advance!!

tinh

Altair Forum User said:

Hi Experts,

 

I want to automate the assembly creation, I can go in 2 ways.

1. Create an assembly hierarchy in excel file and use the script to implement in my hm file.

2. Create a script to create the assembly hierarchy in hm itself using the user input (selecting the sub-assemblies and components together to form an assembly).

Which option would be easier and feasible.

 

I am just a beginner in TCL.

Thanks in advance!!

 

Hi, 

both are feasible, option (2) is easier because it does not have to parse the excel file

Altair Forum User

Thanks a lot for the info!!

I`ve started working on it but I want to know the command for either of these

1. How to get the assembly ID of a component.

2. How can I get the list of component ID's in an Assembly.

 

Please share.

 

Thanks and Regards

Harmeek

tinh

Hello

- to get assembly IDs of a component (not unique, because one comp can belong to several assems)

 *createmark comps 1 'by id only' $CompId *findmark comps 1 1 1 assems 0 2 set AssemIdList [hm_getmark assems 2]

 

- to get comp IDs in an assem:

 set CompIdList [hm_getvalue assems id=$AssemId dataname=components]

 

Aditya Palsule

Hello,

 

I am trying to isolate/show assemblies but when I use

 

*startnotehistorystate {show Assembly}
*createmark assemblies 2 $isolate_assembly
*createstringarray 2 'elements_on' 'geometry_on'
*showentitybymark 2 1 2
*endnotehistorystate {show Assembly}

 

it dosen't work, but instead of variable if I use assembly name directly it works.

 

Am i missing out something? But using variable name for components worked well.

Aditya Palsule

Sorry my bad...it worked...