# how can I get the 3d model information from SAT

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**Category:** RobotStudio\
**Created:** [August 20, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/how-can-i-get-the-3d-model-information-from-sat/2991 "2009-08-20T19:08:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![zhengyou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/48db29/32.png) [@zhengyou](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/u/zhengyou)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/how-can-i-get-the-3d-model-information-from-sat/2991/1 "2009-08-20T19:08:28Z")

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when I import the 3d model from SAT, I want to read the coordinate of points on the surface of model. but I can’t find RS provide this function. in the autocad, I can use function capture to get the information of coordinate of each point on the surface of model. how can I do like this? could anyone teach me? thanks. another question is why autocad can’t read the sat file outputted by RS?

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**Author:** ![Anders\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Anders\_S](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/u/Anders_S)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/how-can-i-get-the-3d-model-information-from-sat/2991/2 "2009-08-21T16:25:25Z")

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Hi,

IA’m not sure I understand what you mean with points, but you will see the coordinates of the mouse click int the RobotStudio taskbar:

![](http://forums.robotstudio.com/webwiz/51/ScreenHunter_01_Aug._21_16.14.jpg)

The reason that AutoCad not can read the sat file is probably that RobotStudio use a newer version of ACIS then your AutoCad program. You can select what ACIS version you should use at export from RobotStudio:

![](http://forums.robotstudio.com/webwiz/51/ScreenHunter_02_Aug._21_16.19.jpg)

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**Author:** ![zhengyou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/48db29/32.png) [@zhengyou](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/u/zhengyou)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 11:24am UTC](https://tech-community.robotics.abb.com/t/how-can-i-get-the-3d-model-information-from-sat/2991/3 "2009-08-24T11:24:41Z")

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thanks a lots