Manual Harvest Item From (H)
The new line item window will now automatically recognize as much as it can of quantity, material, thickness and part name, when loading a part from a dwg/dxf or when using the Harvest Item From H function in the geometry editor, or when loading a single drawing from a file.
When using Harvest Item From the name match here is simply done using any remaining text left after quantity, material and thickness matches have been removed, when loading parts from file the name is of course the filename as it has always been.
The matches are highlighted in yellow and indicated color-coded in the harvested text section, for example applying H to the following selection.
This results in a new line item window with everything matched as follows:
Other phrases can help recognize the part name unambiguously if there is more text present, recognizing certain keywords. A text search and replace can be used in a good CAD editor or in a text editing tool of the file is a DXF to replace other phrases in the drawing with one from the list below.
It will recognize the following prefixes as indicating a part name
PARTNAME=
PARTNAME:
PARTNAME-
PART_NAME=
PART_NAME:
PART_NAME-
PART=
PART:
PART-
… and read to the end of the line.
If any of the following unexpected phrases are matched within the resulting name, it will fail to harvest the name.
PARTNAME
PART_NAME
MATERIAL
THICKNESS
THICK
THK
QTY
QUANTITY
GRADE
OFF\b
gauge\b
(the \b means end of word, so PART:3 OFF matches and fails, but PART:OFFICE DOOR does not match the exclusions, and will succeed returning "Office Door")
Not that this will match:
PART=Item 5
but may not succeed on
PART=Item 5 qty 10
… because it sees QTY in the harvested name and sees that as ambiguous. Normally, it should already have harvested the qty phrase and removed it from what it trying to name-match so it may still work.
Modifying the automatically found material values
Apart from changing the values manually, you can select any text in the text box, right click on it and use one of the following options to overwrite the automatically found values:
