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Calypso appreciation post here...

This is beyond amazing to me and in a way, cheating those who physically measure things though. We're doing some reverse engineering and it's one of my favorite things to do.

Does anyone remember how to export the points into Solidworks & create a sketch of the points?

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Right click on the Curve, export points, select DXF. You only need the actual points, no need for the vectors.

If you want this automated, you add do this in your Results to File options. I believe you will need a Curve characteristic to activate it though.

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Do you know how to upload them into Solidworks?

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If it's a DXF, you would typically create a sketch first, and then there should be a DXF import option. That's how it works in Inventor at least.

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SolidWorks will import DXFs directly through the "open" menu.

Alternatively, you can export it from Calypso as a text file, then in SW go to Insert->Curve->Curve Through XYZ if you have a 3D curve.

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Two very annoying things happening when exporting as text:

1) The points export in MM.

2) The Z coordinates have to be changed to 0.

Does anyone know how to quickly change the Z coordinates to 0? From what I've looked up, one way is to import the .txt file into Excel but when creating the cell separator, some of my Y coordinates are not conforming so its a complete mess & each cell that is slightly off has to be changed.

I haven't figured out how to do much with the .DXF file, once it shows the points of the curve, it won't let me convert them into entities.

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See attached. I've learned at lot since creating this so it's not perfect. If you don't choose to export the xyz vectors, you won't have to delete them. Also, because you've created the curve off a part that is most likely not going to be perfect you'll need to just use the spline as a construction and recreate the geometry with clearly defined sketch (everything dimensioned and constrained with relations).
Give me an e-mail address (you can private message me to where I only see it) and I can send you a solidworks cad model example I created off of curves generated in Calypso to give you an idea of how I did it. You'd have to be running solidworks 2019 or later to open it.

Bringing points into solidworks as splines.ppt

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I just noticed this but for some reason it doesn't give me the option in my 2d curve for stylus correction

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After turning digitalizing on, click the box as show in second pic.
In older versions of calypso, you have to do it manually as shown in 1st pic