Catvba Api Object Corresponding Geometry Feature With Vba Objects

This took a while to figure out, and I'm definitely posting it on the web because it's barely documented. The problem with Bodies automation is the fact that all bodies are stored in the part level collection. I didn't see that at first, because I'm used to the Geometrical Set and OGS recursion when working with CATIA spec tree navigation.

Within the 3DExperience Platform the VBA Library's are stored as objects unlike V5 where the VBA project is just stored on the file system. 3DExperience VBA Library Object. The VBA IDE application will now open allowing you to create and edit your code. Using the ioPLMNewService object we created previously we can now use the

VBA CATIA Part Design - Geometrical Sets. In this post we will build up on what we did last time with the introduction to VBA for CATIA. If we go back to the Automation.chm document we can navigate to the PartDocument object. Within which we can start to create Parameters, Relations, Geometrical Sets, Wireframe and Solid objects.

The length of the shafts varies, and if the shaft is too long, a broken view is applied to the first two views. This makes positioning the detailed view window challenging. What I have been trying to do is select the side view and list all the generated items found in this view along with their corresponding locations.

VBA For CATIA V5. Like most applications there is a set of API Application Programming Interfaces that allow VB, Visual Basic talk to the application, and navigate its class structure, to the Methods and properties for each class object. We can use these API's to build up a macro to process a common or repetitive task. Visual Basic

You need to select first the desired sketch, either by user choice or by searching after name and after that you need to search inside this selection the 2D geometry with an advanced query you can select and delete whatever you want.

Your problem is famous, you don't have to use quotas selectionquot. It will use an other VBA references, other than CATIA references. Sub Main 'dim s as selection gt don't use this, that's bug with other VBA references Set s CATIA.ActiveDocument.Selection s.Clear Dim Filters0 Filters0 quotFacequot Status s.SelectElement2Filters, quotSelect a featurequot, True If Status quotCancelquot Then Exit Sub

COM Component Object Model is the quotMicrosoftquot standard to share objects between several applications. Automation is a quotMicrosoftquot technology to use COM objects in an interpreted environment. ActiveX component is a quotMicrosoftquot standard to share objects between several applications even in an interpreted environment.

Sub CatMain Dim varFilter1 As Variant Dim objSel As Selection Dim objSelLB As Object ' lt--- notice declared as object Dim strReturn As String Dim strMsg As String varFilter0 quotBodyquot 'Body represents a solid body varFilter1 quotHybridBodyquot 'HybridBody represents a geometrical set Set objSel CATIA.ActiveDocument.Selection Set objSelLB

Let's say you want to figure out how to create a new rib feature. Open the VBA Object Browser and type quotribquot into the search bar. Look in the third column quotmemberquot for anything something that makes sense, in this case quotAddNewRibquot looks good. The second column quotclassquot will tell you what object is needed to use the function.