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loeb

I am trying to write some VBA that sets the "Component Display" of the assemblies and parts in an assembly to "Default Display". I was hoping to find a method in IComponent2, but am having no luck. Any advice is appreciated.

Thank You,

loeb

I have some code that successfully checks files out, saves them, checks them back in, or undoes checkout. What I can't get it to do is correctly report if a file is checked out. pdmFile.IsLocked always returns FALSE. Here's my code. Function IsCheckedOut(swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks, ByVal pdmVault, h...

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AlexB,

I'm opening the parts/assemblies as I'm going through a drawing BOM.

I managed to get my code working today, much like I described. Now, to move them to the vault and check them in and figure out how the PDM API...

Thank you for your offer of help. I might just take that you up on that.

loeb

I'm writing a macro that will iterate through a BOM and will edit configuration specific properties of parts/assemblies in the BOM. To be clear, I want to edit the part/assembly files themselves. This is a big step beyond anything I have written before and have a question. I know how to traverse the...

loeb

Thank You, Josh. "BoolStatus = swAnnot.Select3(False, Nothing)" did the trick.

loeb

I'm writing a macro that iterates through a drawing and changes the style of BOM Balloons, but It errors with "Object or variable With block variable not set." Here's the relevent code: For j = 0 To UBound(swAnnotations) If DecodeAnnotType(swAnnot.GetType) = "swNote" Then Set swA...

loeb

I'm writing some code to manipulate BOM Balloons. Getting the following balloon properties is straightforward using "Get" statements. (Style, Size, UpperTextStyle, UpperText, LowerTextStyle, LowerText) But when it comes to getting the following properties (CustomSize, ShowQuantity, Quantit...

loeb

I use Google Drive to share SolidWorks VBA macros between several machines at both work and home. I have found that macro SWP files that are added to Google Drive using the Windows interface (versus Google Drive in a browser window) are not synced. Have others experienced this issue?

loeb

I have figured out a lot about this issue. It's really not a macro/API issue at all because it affects other command buttons as well. Here we go. image.png There are 3 placed in the SW that I tried placing "new macro" buttons for various macros that I use. I also put a "measuring tool...

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I'll share some videos soon, but in the meantime, I discovered that the behavior is different, depending on where the "new macro" button has been placed. If I put it on the Macro Toolbar, they seem to work on the first click. If I put the "new macro" button on the SW Window Title...

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If I run a macro while a cell in a drawing table is selected, nothing happens on the first click. If I click on the run icon a second time, it works fine. This bahavior happens when running a macro using a "new macro button" in the SW UI or when hitting the "run sub" play button ...

loeb

Given a selected GTOL frame, I need to determine the value of the DIM that the GTOL is attached to. It's easy enough to get the properties of a GTOL frame, and I can determine if it's attached to something, but getting the dimension itself is eluding me.

Thanks,

loeb

I wrote a similar one that deletes all lights and sets ambient to 1. Now all our parts that are the same material look the same.

loeb

gupta9665 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 6:56 am Yes because recorder was spiting "CenterOfMass" as "CENTEROFMASS".

I don't use the macro recorder. When I use print.debug to print the type, it was in mixed case..

loeb

Don't use SelectByID2. SelectByID is what the macro recorder uses, but it's almost always the wrong thing to use when you're actually writing a macro. In this case, you already have a pointer to the Feature object, which has a Select2 method. But, in fact, since you already have a pointer to the Fe...

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gupta9665 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 27, 2023 9:34 amTry this

UCASE? That's nuts when swFeat.GetTypeName literally returns "CenterOfMass"

Thanks

loeb

When I insert a Center of Mass feature, it ends up being suppressed in all the unactive configurations even though I have the "Suppress Feature" setting unchecked in the properties for every configuration. So, I wrote a macro that will iterate through every configuration and every feature,...

loeb

My engineering group is having a problem where the SW Drawing AutoZones/Borders are being created 'by themselves' and often go undetected until later in our work flow, creating additional work to correct them. I want to modify one of our commonly used macros to also automatically delete these if the...

loeb

Thank You, AlexB. I would have never caught that "typo" since I copied it verbatim from the SW API help pages. I can't figure out is what the proper syntax is for calls like this. I originally used the "BoolStatus = swApp.SetUserPreference..." form because that's what SW has in e...

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Under Options->Document Properties->Drawing Sheets->Sheet format for new sheets, I am trying to change the settings using the methods documented here: https://help.solidworks.com/2021/english/api/swconst/DP_DrawingSheets.htm I have done this for other settings successfully, but just can't get it to ...

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I have some assemblies and discovered that someone, a long time ago, overrode the mass properties of some of the parts. Other than going through every part and checking if the mass props have been overridden in every configuration, is there an easy way to identify them?

loeb

I have a BOM table for multiple configurations of an assembly. I would like to be able to get the name of the configuration for each QTY column. Is there a way to traverse the QTY columns and get the config name/number?

loeb

This is likely linked to the fact that the Document Setting for Table Vertical Cell Padding is ignored by SolidWorks Drawings and has been for well over a decade. I just reported this bug (again).

loeb

What are you guys talking about an "add-in" instead of a macro?

loeb

JSculley wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2023 7:50 am The DLL and instructions on how to register it are now here:

https://github.com/jsculley/MaterialSea ... es/tag/0.4

Thank You!

loeb

JSculley wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 10:07 am Can you read/write to the registry via the Registry Editor? If so, I can provide instructions on how to manually 'install' the add-in.

Yes, I can do that (so far). That would be great! Thank you.

loeb

Because of my company's security policy, installing an MSI is difficult/impossible for apps that are not trusted. Is a standalone version possible?

loeb

When creating new tables, cell padding often ends up being set to something different from what's specified in document properties. Often one or both of the padding values will be 0 (zero) instead of the non-zero value I specify (such as 0.02 in). I have tried writing VBA code to programatically se ...

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Josh,

This helps. There is only one Ambient light and this function only works on Ambient lights. Specifying the light name did do the trick, though.

loeb

Here's a sample of code: Option Explicit Sub main() Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Dim swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2 Dim ModelDocExtension As ModelDocExtension Dim BoolStatus As Boolean Dim i As Integer Dim LightSourceCount As Integer Dim LightSourcename As String Dim LightSourceUserName As String D...

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What are you expecting to get from the function? It returns true or false. Do you understand what ByRef means? You have to pass variables into the function to receive all the values. That's how I'm using it and when I inspect the values after calling GetAmbienLight Properties, they are all zero or ...

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josh wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 7:00 pm What are you expecting to get from the function? It returns true or false. Do you understand what ByRef means? You have to pass variables into the function to receive all the values.

It must be the byref thingy. Guess I'll have to figure that out. Never rant into that that before.

loeb

Does anyone have any VBA examples that use GetAmbientLightProperties or SetAmbientLightProperties. I can't get anything but 0 or FALSE values from GettAmbientLightProperties. I also had to initialize/dim "Colour" to Long (instead of Integer as the API help defines it) to get it to complile...

loeb

Typically, you'll either want to do one of two things. 1. Keep all of the types of objects in an array the same type 2. Use 2 separate arrays of the same length and have array1 hold the objects and have array2 hold the object types. This way, if you know what type to treat your object as from array...

loeb

I need to make an array of everything that the user has selected in the feature tree of an assembly file. The selected items an be planes, sketches, mates, parts, assemblies, etc. I made a copy of the selection manager's array in the form of a variant array, but I can't figure out how to operate on ...

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I am working on some macros that gets and sets document properties for CenterMarks and gets and sets properties of CenterMarks themselves. I am trying to manipulate the settings around Circular Lines, Radial Lines, and Base Center Mark. I found the enumeration regarding this setting here: https://he...

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Zhen-Wei Tee, That idea will work well for use because we use a unique revision table symbol (circle square) which is a headache since that's not a valid default symbol, so we have to manually change the symbol from one of the default options, but in this case, it will work in our favor since that s...

loeb

Is there a way, using VBA, to identify the geometry (arc, circle, hole, etc) that a CenterMark is attached to? If that's possible, I'd then want to be able to get properties of that geometry, such as diameter/radius.

Thank you

loeb

Hammer, I recently ran into a limitation that I think will be a problem for you too. I don't think that there's a way to identify if a note is a revision symbol. I wanted to make a macro that finds and changes the color of all revision symbols that might be left over from previous revisions, but cou...

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You could add a column to the BOM table and put in an "X" for every item that is missing a balloon. The user could use this to mark their progress as they correct the missing balloons. Then, it would be simple for them to delete the column when they are done.

loeb

gupta9665 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 21, 2022 2:23 am Sorry, I went the other way round. Check the macro codes here https://wellsr.com/vba/2017/excel/GetAs ... s-pressed/

Nice! I'll check that out.

loeb

If I'm not mistaken, Solidworks always checks first to see if a configuration property exists. If it does exists, then it would ignore the values in the Global and only use the Configuration property value. If it doesnt exist, then it would take the value from the Global. ResidentAtLarge, you are c...

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SendKeys should be the key you looking for. Check codes by @Josh here https://r1132100503382-eu1-3dswym.3dexperience.3ds.com/#community:yUw32GbYTEqKdgY7-jbZPg/iquestion:cPZa4KkjSHKVJEaLiC692g Deepak, Thank you for your response. The Microsoft VBA reference says that SendKeys "Sends one or more...

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I need help writing a keyboard event handler in VBA. I'm trying to write a macro that will interact with the mouse and keyboard. I found a GREAT forum post where Josh Brady posted some code that works great with the mouse using GetMouse. In this example, if the mouse is clicked, a dialog comes up wi...

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I figured that that a Revision Symbol is really just a Balloon. I can insert the Revision Symbol using

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swModel.InsertRevisionSymbol()

then change its format and border using

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SetTextFormat()

loeb

After inserting a Revision Symbol

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value = instance.InsertRevisionSymbol(X, Y)

How can I change its border. I don't see any method for that.

Thank You

loeb

I did find this tip at https://www.javelin-tech.com/blog/2020/10/creating-macro-buttons-in-solidworks/ Extra: As you can see above, the Macro button has a generic icon image. If you want to apply a unique image for the Macro button, click “Choose Image” under “Appearance” in Step7. SOLIDWORKS provid...

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I've developed a bunch of VBA macros that I depend on regularly. I have them in a custom toolbar, but they all have the same default SolidWorks icon. 1) Have you found a 'library' of useful icons that work well for this purpose? 2) Do you have a utility that makes it quick and easy to make your own ...

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gupta9665 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 2:40 am Both codes works fine for me i.e. hiding al the planes.

Deepak, it works on the active config, but none of the others. Using ShowConfiguration2 solved the issue.

loeb

The only thing that I have in my similar macro is that I am calling to show the configuration before I begin trying to hide the geometry. In your code, this can be the first line in your For Each loop. swModel.ShowConfiguration2 vConfigName Another thing to note, to speed things up you can check to...

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