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Tube Length Bill of Materials

Owned by Lauralee Reinke (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Mon Apr 17, 2017 by Glen Yamakawa
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 Create a tube length bill of materials

The Tube Length Bill of Materials command exports a model's existing tube length measurements to a .csv file contains the following information:

  • Length
  • Diameter 
  • Arc1 Center XYZ 
  • Arc2 Center XYZ 
  • BendRadius 
  • BendAngleDegrees 
  • BendCenter XYZ 
  • Intersection XYZ 
  • Total length

To create a Tube Length Bill of Materials:

  1. After completing a Tube Length measurement, an Export... button is available on the Tube Length Measurement dialog window. Click the Export... button.
  2. Enter a name to save the file.
  3. Click the Save button.

Alternatively,

  1. On the Markups list, right mouse click on a Tube Length measurement.
  2. Select Export... in the context menu.
  3. Enter a name to save the file.
  4. Click the Save button.

     

 

Known Limitations

Differing Diameters

The Tube Length Bill of Materials uses the diameter measurement from the start of the tube. If a the tube changes in diameter, this can be reported in the Bill of Materials incorrectly.

Unicode Characters 

Because the CSV format is simply a text delimited file, some characters could not be properly represented. Bill of Materials in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), and Korean will export in English.