Extracting coordinates from a curve

wsellers89 · 31 Mar 2010, 23:41

Is there a way to extract the x,y or x,y,z points off a line, curve, or bezier curve without manually trying to "digitize" points along the line?

pilou · 1 Apr 2010, 01:10

For one coordinate
Click on the curve line with the Icon Text and move it

TIG · 1 Apr 2010, 10:17

As Pilou says, like this...

wsellers89 · 2 Apr 2010, 11:42

Thank you Pilou and TIG,

What you both showed will do what I need.  I did not know if there was a Ruby or function that will accomplish this.  One other question if you don't mind.  In the sample that TIG showed, some of the coordinates are preceded by a ~ sign.  What does this mean?

pilou · 2 Apr 2010, 11:46

~ = Something like an approximation

TIG · 2 Apr 2010, 11:51

I have my Model Info > Units set to return a whole of mm, so if the dimension is not a whole number SUp rounds it to the nearest whole number, but it adds a ~ to warn you that the figure is 'approximate'***...
1.0mm ==> 1
1.2mm ==> ~1
1.9mm ==> ~2
1234.0mm ==> 1234
1234.5mm ==> ~1235
***I find that I don't need to report dimensions etc to anything smaller than a 'mm'... You can if you like...