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can i get modeldoc from bom table?
dear worldly wizards of api...given a selected row in a sw bom table, is there a way to get the corresponding modeldoc for that row?
thanks
jeff sweeney, cswp
sw user since '96
answer this has been brought up a few times before, and unfortunately noone can find any solution to this. the bomtableannotation object does not give any access to the underlying models on a per-row basis, only on the table itself.
i have just had another scour through the api and still cannot find a way. i would presume there is some new api in 2008 as this can now be done using right-clicking etc... but i cannot find that either.
the only way i've been able to do this is by using the text in the bom to reference the filename. this is assuming you have a column in your bom that contains the part name and you can assume the part is in the same folder as the drawing. you can use the tableannotation object to get the text of each cell as necessary.
then you can get the modeldoc object by opening the file in the background. i used to do this to get custom property information for parts in the bom when exporting the bom... but i can't find the code as we don't do that anymore.
i hope this helps...
eric
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