Jump to content

rotate, sort, extract polylines from surface out of solids


Recommended Posts

Hi Marionettes 🙂



is it possible to get some Marionette which does the stuff in the title?


I can´t do this by Hand, because there are app. hundreds of pieces from a parasolid file (which are non ineriorcad 3D-parts) and i Need to get them onto my machine.


So i Need to "extract" the Surface (out of the modelling tools) and turn the Output (poly) into a 3D-part.


By hand this is really slow and annoying, if u got hundreds of solids u have to machine.


So i think, if i can imagine a Marionette, which , sort them by thickness, rotate them all in the following way->  that the Main-Surface of the pieces are in the same "Level Z=0" then get the "extract tool" of the top Surface into a poly and made 3D-Parts for interior cad.


(the last step is possible to do it manually, because i can select multiple polys and using the flash-tool-3D-part for making multiple 3D-parts with one click)




PS: applying the Name of the parasolid-volumes onto the polys or the 3D parts (if it is poss to make this 3D-part-interiorcad command by marionette) would be a nice plus.

Link to comment

Yes you could probably do the with Marionette, but in my opinion, Marionette is much better for generating new geometry than for working with existing objects.


I would recommend learning Vectorscript or Pythonscript for doing tasks like this. I think you will have much better luck even if the learning curve is a little steeper.


But I don't have time right now to be of much help in creating this script.

Link to comment

I did not found the node for placing part3d of interiorcad. U know where it is or how ist IS named?


What U would do instead of sorting Them ans get the surface boundary for making Part 3d? 


The task is, Putting existing geometry on the CNC machine. Before i Started this Job i could Not Imagine, that with vektorworks it is so complicated Putting imported 3d geometrY Into CNC Code and i never thought that unparametrical modelling exists.


Thx so far Then.


Maybe i will get an additional different Software for me to do the stuff VW cant do.

Link to comment

Join the conversation


Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Restore formatting

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.


×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor


  • Create New...