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SelectById / SelectById2 (sw2004/sw2006 diff?)

Appologies in advance if this is outdated...but I could find no postings of this 'issue'. I suspect it may exist with 2007 also (confirmation?).

Been asked to look into migration issues from current SW 2004 base into

SW 2006.

Several of the designers are complaining that 2006 does not seem to have the same cutting-along-a-surface abilities of 2004.

For example, take a surface, Put a bunch of pins through it, then use the CUT-Extrude feature to cut off the pins above (or below) the surface en masse.

When I looked at the VBS generated by SW, it seems that 2004 is using a

SelectById call whereas 2006 is using a SelectById2 call. I wonder if this has anything to do with the problem.

At any rate, has anyone experienced this problem? More importantly, is there any solution to this? (Am I missing something terribly obvious?!?)

Thanks in advance.

Reply to
DragonAtWork
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SelectByID2 is just an updated version of the prior SelectById. That is nothing to be concerned about. I would like to see an example of the problem with cut-extrude.

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TOP

I guess you are looking for Insert -> Cut -> With Surface? That has been along since I remember, and works still well AFAIK.

-h-

Reply to
Heikki Leivo

Sorry. I made a mistake. Apparently the function in question does seem to work with both versions. My mistake.

However, when I record a macro to do this, it is unable to do it. That is to say, only manually can I cut some particular part of a planar extrusion.

--------snip------------- Sub main()

Set swApp = Application.SldWorks

' get the part --prepared with waiting extrusion positioned through planar surface Set Part = swApp.OpenDoc6("E:\111\Assem1.SLDASM", 2, 0, "", longstatus, longwarnings) Set Part = swApp.ActivateDoc2("Assem1", False, longstatus) swApp.ActiveDoc.ActiveView.FrameLeft = 0 swApp.ActiveDoc.ActiveView.FrameState = 1 ' change to shaded view Part.ViewDisplayShaded 'select the extruding part boolstatus = Part.Extension.SelectByID2("", "FACE", 0.03690434001857,

0.02652088599496, -0.03610309674377, False, 0, Nothing, 0) Part.EditPart Part.ClearSelection2 True ' select the planar surface the extruding part extrudes/passes through boolstatus = Part.Extension.SelectByID2("HCM145-2@Assem1", "COMPONENT", 0.04670531419703, 0.0414445816848, -0.001999999999896, True, 0, Nothing, 0) ' chop part of it off Part.InsertCavity4 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, -1 ' rebuild the project boolstatus = Part.EditRebuild3 Part.ClearSelection2 True Part.ViewDisplayShaded Part.ShowNamedView2 "*Isometric", 7 Part.EditAssembly End Sub

--------snip-------------

Any ideas why SW only seems to work manually in this case?

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DragonAtWork

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