Pro Toolkit csys feature creation

[barnlogic]

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I am looking for some sample code for creating an offset Cartesian coordinate system in toolkit. The rest of my code is working and I want to use the mass properties data to place a coordinate system and then do some other stuff.


I have a good handle on everything BUT the csys creation.


I looked in the API wizard and I went crosseyed when I saw all the options ProFeatureCreate. If someone has some sample code or can suggest a better API function call, I would be very grateful.


Thanks!

 

[williaps]

WELCOME TO PRO/TOOLKIT! Read the API Wizard under User's Guide->Creating Datum Features->Datum Coordinate System Features. This will walk you through the steps to create the Csys feature.

 

[_TL_]

It is not simple, you have to create and fill the feature tree correctly. I can have a look for such a code. For which Wildfire do you need it?

 

[barnlogic]

Thank you Patrick and _TL_.<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />


_TL_ if you have some sample code I would really love to see it. Is it too long to cut and paste the fucntion calls here?


Patrick, I appriciate your help. I did go back and have another look at the manual. I cut and pasted the sample code into my project to see how it would work. It creates a csys, but I cannot figure out how to pass information to it to offset it from another csys. I would like to relocate it to the CG of the assembly and then rotate it along the principle axes to diagonalize the intertia tensor. I would like to pass the following mass properties, as I have defined them:


mass_prop.center_of_gravity[0],


mass_prop.center_of_gravity[1],


mass_prop.center_of_gravity[2],


These are the xyz coords to the CG from the csys selected for the mass properties calculations.


Thanks guys! I am grateful for your help.

 

[spinta]

Hello,


The simple way to do that is to use UDF. You create an User Defined Feature with one feature Csys defined by6 dimensions (xpos, ypos, zpos and 3 angles).


In toolkit you add the UDF and after you can modify the dimension according with value of center of gravity and inertia tensor