(Note: I am in ISO view in the image below.) In the feature tree, you will see a feature that was added called Curve 1. Your pop-up window will automatically close and your sketch is now blue. When you find your file and add it to the Curve File pop-up window, you should notice a yellow sketch on your SOLIDWORKS screen. Think 3D sketching.)Ī Curve File pop-up window will open and ask you for the location of the file.Ĭlick on Browse and go find the file with your coordinate data. The coordinates that are entered into the text file will be automatically added, starting on the front plane. (Note: I am not in sketch mode nor did I activate a plane to start a sketch. The command Curve Through Points XYZ can be found here: With SOLIDWORKS open I started a New Part File with the units set to inches.
I then saved the file for this example I named the file CTP-DEMO.TXT (see image below). Then I switched back to Notepad and pasted the data using CTRL-V. I then went back to my Excel file, used a bounding box to capture all my coordinates, and copy the data using CTRL-C. I am old school so I opened Notepad and started a new file. There are several ways to get data from Excel to Notepad. I saved the file and it was ready for the next step. Then I filled in my Excel data columns with several rows of numbers.Īs you can tell by the image to the right, I kept it pretty simple. Once opened, I created a table that had data columns X, Y, and Z. I started by opening Microsoft Excel and created a new file using the blank worksheet template. The feature allows you to make some amazing parts that might otherwise cost you many hours of consternation. In one of my recent SOLIDWORKS training classes, a student asked, “Can I use an Excel file to create a 3D sketch that can be then swept ?” The answer is yes, and I decided to show him and the entire class the cool feature in SOLIDWORKScalled Curve Through XYZ Points.
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