API Help

Mar 02, 2004 3 Replies
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I've written some Vb code to create a blind hole, (featureCut). I need to selected the face at the bottom of the hole to insert a sketch. I can get the face object and even find it's area, but cannot find a way to select the face to insert a sketch. Below is some of my code. I can pick the face using SelectById and the correct x,y,z values but I would need to covert these values to Model space values from the sketch coordinates. I was hoping for an eaiser way.



Thanks Warren



Set FeatureO = FeatureMgr.FeatureCut(True, False, False, 0, 0, 0.00635 * 2,



0.00254, False, False, False, False, 0.01745329251994, 0.01745329251994, False, False, False, False, 0, 1, 1)

FaceArray = FeatureO.GetFaces 'get face array rtnval = FeatureO.GetFaceCount ' face count Set FaceO = FaceArray(0) 'get face#0


Set rtnval = selMgr.GetSelectedObject4(1) ' returns false



rtnval = ModelExt.SelectByID("", "FACE", x1, y1, 0.00635, False, 0, Nothing) Modeldoc.InsertSketch2 (True) 'creates sketch cursor in Solidworks because no face is selected


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If you know things about your face, the best is to use Feature.GtFaces or Body.GetFirstFace + Face.GetNetFace to find it in the geometry, then simply Face.Select

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Thanks, needed to a add value, true/false but it works!!! Face.Select(True) Why is this not documented? Are there many undocumented commands?

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Face.Select(True)

it IS documented : Entity::Select ... A Face is an Entity, in OO words the Face class derives from then Entity class, so all methods from entity can be called from a Face object.

Now I agree the SW API class hierarchy isn't the most clear thing on Earth. We're all waiting for a class diagram in apihelp. I made one for my C++ class wrapper that might help:

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