I know that if you click on a face, and use the measure tool, SolidWorks will give you the area of that face. If the part has a hole or multiple holes in, this area isnt calcualted. What I need though is the square area of the part. In the example image below, the hole in the center would most likely be scrapped, unless someone nested a small part in that area (which doesnt happen much here).
Is there a way to get this value automatically? Macro maybe?
This isn't automatic, but you could offset a surface from the part (offset
0), then delete the hole or holes in the surface, then measure the area of the surface.Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems "take the garbage out, dear"
You might try this. Preconditions are in a part, a face pre-selected. It should insert a sketch on the face, convert edges, then create a planer surface, and exit the sketch. That should give you a surface, without any holes, that you can use the measure tool on. Insert this below the standard header info of a macro. Written for 2006.
Sub main()
Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
Set Part = swApp.ActiveDoc Set SelMgr = Part.SelectionManager Part.InsertSketch2 True boolstatus = Part.SketchUseEdge2(False) Part.InsertPlanarRefSurface Part.ClearSelection2 True End Sub
Thanks Brian for that macro. Im going to try and add to it where it automatically spits out the surface area and then deletes the feature created.
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