Tutorial-How to import points to solidworks from a text file !

Follow The Procedure Below

Answered with a tutorial: https://grabcad.com/tutorials/tutorial-how-to-import-points-to-solidworks-from-a-text-file--2

If you just want to make spline with the points, you can do it without macro!
follow the procedure below:

Answered with a tutorial: https://grabcad.com/tutorials/tutorial-how-to-import-points-to-solidworks-from-a-text-file

As you want to export airfoil coordinates to the SolidWorks hence the coordinate database for airfoils usually come in 2D (in two column only has X & Y) and it's a tedious job to put 0 into the third column, Little changes to above procedure is needed (you can do it using matlab software or excel but I prefer this)

a database for airfoils coordinate comes below:
http://www.ae.illinois.edu/m-selig/ads/coord_database.html#N

Answered with a tutorial: https://grabcad.com/tutorials/tutorial-how-to-import-points-to-solidworks-from-a-text-file--1

Hello. In the SWP file is missing some variable declarations:
Dim Part As Object
Dim X As Double
Dim Y As Double
Dim Z As Double
Thanks

Added a dialog to select the file, supports 2 or 3 coordinates automatically, discards not numbers strings, converts decimal mark.
This also fixes a bad behavior of CreatePoint: some points were added with the previous point Y.

How to use it:
- download the swp file
- create a new part
- Tools > Macro > Run..
- select the swp file
- now a new dialog appears, look a the title, it is called "Open points file to import"
- select your point file
- choose if you want to replace the decimal separator (comma to point or point to comma)
- choose if you want the value divided by 1000

hello
very good
thanks

Very useful. Thanks a lot.

Great tutorial! I wish I only wish I had found it sooner.

Thank you for the tutorial!
However, could you explain how you created a surface with those points (step 9)?
Thanks in advance

I've used the Macro on several occasions, however for some reason I'm getting a compiling error on the Set Part line. Can you give me some direction?

Thankyou Amin!
Worked perfectly!

I was wondering if it would be possible to connect the points in order they are imported? to draw a line through all the coordinates, I've started doing it by hand but Im hoping there is a simpler way.

Thank you Amin

This topic is maybe outdated, but I used it today and found it meaningful. But if somebody can help. I need to define the type of import for each point. For example, for first coordinate XYZ i need to import a cercle 2mm diameter. For the second point, a cercle 3mm diameter... is that possible please?