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Extracting parts from drawings in foreign format and saving as GEO
The assistant for the layout can be used to extract single parts from drawings in foreign format one after the other and to save them as *.GEO. The process can be repeated till all parts are extracted from a drawing.
If all parts from a drawing are to be saved as *.GEOs: select
>Assistants >Layout >Extract sheet >Sheet all (see the next section).
If the sheet layout is not relevant, the option for saving the sheet file (*.TAF) can be deselected here.
1. Load drawing in foreign format.
2. If required, select >Assistants >Layout >Find equals.
(If a saved part is present in the drawing several times, the copies too are found in the same manner).
3. To mark single elements that should belong to one *.GEO:
select >Assistants >Layout >Extract part >Part element.
(>Part element is useful only if the parts in the drawing are not nested very close to one another.)
or
¾ To save full parts as *.GEO (including all the inside contours, texts or points contained in it): select >Assistants
>Layout >Extract part >Part contour .
(>Part contour is useful only if the outer contour of the part is correctly drawn and has no gaps, for example.)
The TruTops file browser is displayed.
4. Enter the file name for the new *.GEO.
5. Select OK.
6. For >Part element: click on or box in one after the other all elements using a mouse, which should belong to *.GEO.
or
¾ For >Part contour: click on the outer contour of the part that is to be saved as *.GEO.
(Selected elements can be deselected by clicking several times or by boxing them in.)
7. After the selection is completed: Press <Enter> or <Return>
(↲ ).
or
¾ Select OK.
Extracting selected elements/entire parts
The *.GEO is saved.
The saved part obtains a characteristic that groups the elements of the part in the drawing into one unit (see
"Characteristics: a property of elements and contours", pg. 38).
In the "fixed" characteristic setting, certain actions are therefore either applied to the entire unit, (i.e. on all elements) or the actions are declined.
If Highlight characteristics is active, the saved parts with a characteristic are highlighted with a color in the loaded drawing.
If >Find equals is activated, copies of the part are searched for (independent of the position and turning position) and highlighted with a color as well.
8. Select >Assistants >Layout >Show part names.
9. Click on the part whose file name and storage location is to be shown.
The storage location and the file name are shown.
Extracting parts from drawings in foreign format and saving as sheet
The assistant for layout can be used to extract selected parts from drawings in foreign format and to save them as a *.TAF (i.e.
including sheet data). The parts saved in such a manner can be loaded and machined in "Nest", "Laser" and "Punch".
1. Load drawing in foreign format.
2. If required, select >Assistants >Layout >Find equals.
(If >Find equals is activated, all the copies of a part obtain the same name during automatic saving. If >Find equals is not activated, each copy obtains a different name.)
3. To save a defined area of the loaded drawing with all the parts contained in it as sheet geometry (*.TAF) and the parts as *.GEO: select >Assistants >Layout >Extract sheet >Sheet box. (The rectangle set up using the mouse leads to the sheet geometry.)
or
¾ To save all parts within a contour on the loaded drawing as *.GEO and to adopt the contour (or its circumscribing rectangle) as sheet geometry: select >Assistants >Layout
>Extract sheet >Sheet contour.
or Showing storage location
and part names
Showing layout assistant
¾ To save all parts of the loaded drawing as *.GEO and to adopt the circumscribing rectangle of the drawing as sheet geometry: select >Assistants >Layout >Extract sheet
>Sheet all.
The "Extract sheet with parts" mask is displayed.
Extracting sheet with parts
4. Either
¾ To manually save each single part after the definition of the sheet through >File >Save as...: select "Parts""Save manually".
or
¾ To allocate a defined name with consecutive number (e.g.
hugo_01.geo, hugo_02.geo...) to the single parts: open the selection field "Path" with ▼.
¾ In the TruTops file browser, select the folder in which the parts located on the sheet are to be saved.
¾ Select OK.
¾ Enter the "name" for the parts found (for example: hugo).
¾ If the *.GEOs are already present and are to be overwritten: select "Overwrite existing files".
5. To save the sheet as '*.TAF': select "Sheet""Generate sheet file".
(If all parts from a drawing are to be saved as *.GEOs as quickly as possible and the sheet layout is not relevant:
deselect "Generate sheet file".)
6. Open the "Name" selection field with ▼.
The TruTops file browser is displayed.
7. Enter the name under which the extracted sheet (*.TAF) is to be saved.
8. Select OK.
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Defining part data
Defining sheet data
9. Select material (the material thickness is automatically entered).
10. If the part and sheet data is specified: Select OK.
The circumscribing rectangle of the drawing is saved as sheet geometry in case of the "Sheet all" area of application. Outer contours are presented in cyan.
Is the sheet contour considered to be the outer contour of the part and all outer contours of the parts are considered to be inside contours of the "sheet part" by mistake?
¾ Select >Assistants >Layout >Reduce.
¾ TruTops makes the following inside contours into outer contours.
¾ The reduction is repeated if required.
¾ If the selection of the outer contours is correct: select OK.
11. Set up the desired area using the mouse on the loaded drawing.
or
¾ Click on the contour (= contour that should become the sheet geometry).
Outer contours are presented in cyan.
Note
You can select or deselect parts by clicking several times or by boxing them in.
12. If the selection of the area/of the outer contours is complete:
select OK.
13. If "Part""Save manually" has been activated and the marked part is to be saved manually: select >File >Save as....
or
¾ If the marked part is to be skipped (i.e.) not to be saved:
select >Assistants >Layout >Next part.
14. Repeat manual saving/skipping until all parts have been either saved or skipped.
15. To enlarge the view on the selected sheet or (when saving parts manually) on the part to be saved: select >Assistants
>Layout >Zoom.
The area is displayed in enlarged form.
16. Select >Assistants >Layout >Show part names.
17. Mark the part whose file name and storage location is to be Select area or mark contour?
Save parts manually?
Enlarging the view
Showing storage location and part names