Dear all,
I am a newbie on solidworks api.
I create a 1x1x1 mm cube in solidworks. I collected all face objects (use GetFirstFace & GetNextFace) in my program. But I don't know to to create a sketch based on each face programmatically.
(I don't want to prompt user to select a face manually). It is because I want to create some 2D lines on each face and then do some extrusion.
Can anybody tell me?
Thank you very much.
Alan
A Face is also an Entity, so you can Select it. Referring to API help:
"In general, an Entity is something that can be selected through the user interface. Entities are useful because they support direct selection through Entity::Select4."
For example:
Dim model As SldWorks.ModelDoc2 'Assuming this is your model Dim face as SldWorks.Face2 'assuming this is your face ... Dim entity As SldWorks.Entity Set entity = face
Dim selectData As SldWorks.SelectData Set selectData = model.SelectionManager.CreateSelectData entity.Select4 False, selectData
model.SketchManager.InsertSketch False
Hope this helps!
-h-
Thanks for your help. This example is very USEFUL!!.
Actually, I am writing a bounding box program , in order to measure the part EXTACT size.
Could you also give me some ideas to get the edges of this face entity (just like SolidWorks [convert entities]) ? which API functions can I use?
I want to extract these edges and then use "extrude" for a distance.
Your earliest reply is very appreciated. Alan
Well, can't you just like... convert entities? This is far too easy, record a macro and see.
Interesting - have you tried using the bounding box SolidWorks provides (for example, PartDoc.GetPartBox)?
-h-
Yes, I have tried this function. But it just give me a rough size. The returned values are not extactly true. Any ideas on this small project?
I also tried SolidWorks.com provied example, but the performance is very very slow (not acceptable). So, I decided to write by myself.
Alan
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