extraction type of feature

Edit: Sorry, I misread your question - the below code gets the *names* of the features, not the *type*. I guess you need to find the feature with the right name, and get the type from that.

I don't know exactly how to do it in a script, but in plain PC-DMIS you do it with

I see in a plain pc-dmis program "FROM PLANE PLN4 TO CYLINDER CYL1" and by seeing that I'm assuming that should exist command which in conjunction with feature ((REF_ID, 1) or (REF_ID, 2)) should give output of type of feature (es example type of (REF_ID,1)). My problem is that by having name of feature as example (REF_ID, 1) I can't manage to get type of feature.

If you have the name of the feature you can locate the command that creates the feature. From this command you can extract the feature type.

Could you please add small example how to get TYPE for (REF_ID, 1) or (REF_ID, 2)? (REF_ID, 1) is first feature for dimension, (REF_ID, 2) is second feature.

Actually, the "can" in my previous message is more of a "should be able to" - I'm almost certain I have extracted type info in some old Excel macro, but I can't find it atm.

Personally I have done it by looping through the program and build up a table containing references to all features in the program. When I need data for a feature I just look it up in the table and call the command.type function. It will give you an integer, there is a list in the documentation regarding that. You should be aware that the type is usually rather specific, there are for instance a bunch of different cylinder feature types. (Including constructed features. Which may have different internal representations, watch out if extracting data from cylinders, hits are fine though in my experience.)

Problem with TYPE of feature I did solve by using first 3 letters of feature ID. It do work good enough, just need to ensure that default feature ID will stay the same. TYPE I needed to ensure that will be executed only part of code related with certain type of feature.

Problem with time of execution I did solve by exporting data of features to table in excel (looping) and then looping trough basic dimensions and searching for data in table by REF_ID. Seems like I'am done in similar way as you did.

Yes. What datastructure do you use in excel?

My data structure is very simple, it contains 3 columns.
1-st column contains ID of constructed SET features (SCN1, SCN2 ....) which is used for profile outputs
2-nd contains ID's of points which was used to create SET features, planes, lines, and circles
3-rd contains tolerances of TP and profile.
Basically in first step, script looking in the CMM program for TP output and populating REF_ID to excel 2-nd column and tolerance to excel 3-rd column. In second step script looking in the CMM program for constructed set features then to excel 1-st column adding SET ID (SCN1, SCN2 ....) to 2-nd column populating ID's of all points used to create SCN and in 3-rd column populating tolerance of profile. In third step script looking in the CMM program for constructed lines, planes and circles then by using constructed feature REF_ID in excel 2-nd column looking for matching feature ID, when feature have been found then script copying profile tolerance of SCN feature and populating to third column and ID to 2-nd column.
2-nd column I do use for calculation of tolerances of basic dimensions.

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Fast enough for the programs you run?