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Hi Ian / Anyone,

 I have been trouble-shooting all day and I can't seem to figure out how to get the new Catbot 2.0 to work in modefrontier. It seems to be either brining up the catbot.bat file too soon, or too late depending on the sleep settings.    Either way it's not synchronizing like it did before and i get no robot file.

 I have tried dozens of variations from the modefrontier dos node interface. Here are a few things i've tried....

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 Sleep 10
E:\AF_Tools\CatOut.exe Grid Example E:\af_tools
exit %ERRORLEVEL%

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E:\AF_Tools\CatBot.exe

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Grid_Example_Catbot.bat

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My First Logical Approach******************
Sleep 5
E:\AF_Tools\Catbot_2_0\Grid_Example_Catbot.bat
exit %ERRORLEVEL%

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Or.....******************
Sleep 5
E:\AF_Tools\Catbot_2_0\Catbot.exe
exit %ERRORLEVEL%

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E:\AF_Tools\Catbot_2_0\
Copy E:\AF_Tools\Catbot_2_0\Grid_Example.txt %APPL_PWD%\Grid_Example.txt
exit %ERRORLEVEL%

all of these and many more...   What am I doing wrong?

 Thanks,

Daniel

Here is a capture of the CATBOT2.0 ModeFrontier workflow.   

the 'Bar Diameter' must be specified in millimeters- which is a parameter of type Length.

the 'Wind Load' and 'Live Load' must be specified in Newtons- which seem to be parameters of type Force.

However, it also seems that in the sample file, the load and bar parameters are unitless, real numbers.

I've gotten this new flow to work with the sample file which is really nice (the .txt file it creates contains 4,500 lines of structural data!)

When trying to substitute my own file with proper Geometrical Set nomenclature, CATBOT is crashing with this message.  Could this be due to the amount of geometry within the sets (300 points, 300 lines, 50 plates)?

I have two approaches I wanted to run by you. This is probably what you were suggesting, but I'm not sure i know how to do any of the things you were suggesting.

1   Run a macro that searches each geometrical set, and copies points, and lines to the proper Analytical set.

Here is what I have done with a recorded macro.  I just haven't been able to figure out a more general naming convention. it breaks when i delete any of the lines.

ex....

 Language="VBSCRIPT"

Sub CATMain()

Set partDocument1 = CATIA.ActiveDocument

Set selection1 = partDocument1.Selection

selection1.Clear

Set part1 = partDocument1.Part

Set hybridBodies1 = part1.HybridBodies

Set hybridBody1 = hybridBodies1.Item("Copies")

Set hybridBodies2 = hybridBody1.HybridBodies

Set hybridBody2 = hybridBodies2.Item("Block1")

Set hybridBodies3 = hybridBody2.HybridBodies

Set hybridBody3 = hybridBodies3.Item("LINES")

Set hybridShapes1 = hybridBody3.HybridShapes

'I need help with this part. How do I get all the lines in the set without
'calling them by their specific name?

Set hybridShapeLinePtPt1 = hybridShapes1.Item("Line.2810")

selection1.Add hybridShapeLinePtPt1

Set hybridShapeLinePtPt2 = hybridShapes1.Item("Line.2811")

selection1.Add hybridShapeLinePtPt2

Set hybridShapeLinePtPt3 = hybridShapes1.Item("Line.2812")

selection1.Add hybridShapeLinePtPt3

Set hybridShapeLinePtPt4 = hybridShapes1.Item("Line.2813")

selection1.Add hybridShapeLinePtPt4

Set hybridShapeLinePtPt5 = hybridShapes1.Item("Line.3080")

selection1.Add hybridShapeLinePtPt5

Set hybridShapeLinePtPt6 = hybridShapes1.Item("Line.3081")

selection1.Add hybridShapeLinePtPt6

Set hybridShapeLinePtPt7 = hybridShapes1.Item("Line.3082")

selection1.Add hybridShapeLinePtPt7

Set hybridShapeLinePtPt8 = hybridShapes1.Item("Line.3084")

selection1.Add hybridShapeLinePtPt8

Set hybridShapeLinePtPt9 = hybridShapes1.Item("Line.3085")

selection1.Add hybridShapeLinePtPt9

Set hybridShapeLinePtPt10 = hybridShapes1.Item("Line.3086")

selection1.Add hybridShapeLinePtPt10

Set hybridShapeLinePtPt11 = hybridShapes1.Item("Line.3087")

'If i could find a generic naming convention for all contents
'in the set "LINES" I could replace that entire section above and do this for all my sets

selection1.Add hybridShapeLinePtPt11

selection1.Copy

Set partDocument1 = CATIA.ActiveDocument

Set selection2 = partDocument1.Selection

selection2.Clear

Set hybridBody4 = hybridBodies1.Item("Analytical Set")

Set hybridBodies4 = hybridBody4.HybridBodies

Set hybridBody5 = hybridBodies4.Item("Lines")

selection2.Add hybridBody5

selection2.Paste

End Sub

OR...... approach 2 and maybe even better

taking a cue from this example: http://www.gtwiki.org/mwiki/index.php?title=Reactions_in_Powercopies

the part of the reaction code at the very end which writes the new points to the specified geometrical set "PTS"  I was able to get it to redirect to a custom named geometrical set.

This is very promising but I don't have any control beyond that as of yet.  I'm thinking that I could repeat that code once for points, and one for lines.   This might save time if it's embedded in each powercopy so that the global macro doesn't have to be too crazy. It might save time both in actual processing time and maybe even the file setup.

Any Ideas?