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editing blocks per drawing sheet?
i have a question. i have several drawing document sheets that have the same block instance on them. what i have is a macro that will update/replace them but it doesn't do it for just that sheet, it does it for all and if replacing them puts them all on the active sheet you run the macro against. the question, is how do you get the macro to focus and change only the blocks on that sheet and leave the rest unchanged on the following sheets? i've played with the focuslocked without luck. maybe i'm not understanding how it works or need to try something different. i've also tried looping through the features in the document, looking at the drawing sheets only method with no luck either. so any pointers or samples would be much appreciated.
here is the array of info i'm gathering from the blocks to use for replacement, but it gathers it from all sheets:
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edited: 09/11/2008 at 05:17 pm by william crosby
ok, here's what i have for a working copy to detect with, but still have the issue of it picking up all block instances regardless of what sheet the routine runs on. only want the block instances for that sheet. change the const blkitem1 = "block1" to whatever block name you create.
'----------code---------------
option explicit
dim swapp as sldworks.sldworks ' solidworks application
dim swmodel as sldworks.modeldoc2 ' layout object access
dim swdraw as sldworks.drawingdoc ' drawing layout object access
dim swsketchmgr as sldworks.sketchmanager ' sketch manager object access
dim swselmgr as sldworks.selectionmgr ' selection manager object access
dim swblockinst as sldworks.sketchblockinstance ' delcare block instance
dim swblockdef as sldworks.sketchblockdefinition ' declare block definition
dim swfeat as sldworks.feature ' declare feature objects
dim swsheet as sldworks.sheet ' sheet object access
dim swview as sldworks.view ' view object access
const blkitem1 = "block1" ' define name of block
dim vblockdefs as variant, vblockinsts as variant
dim vblockdefcount as long, vblockinstcount as long
dim blocksipnt() as variant ' capture block insertion point
dim blocksrot() as variant ' capture block rotation
dim blocksscl() as variant ' capture block scale
dim blkexist as boolean ' declare true or false for block operations
sub checkforblock()
on error resume next
set swapp = application.sldworks
set swmodel = swapp.activedoc
set swsketchmgr = swmodel.sketchmanager
set swselmgr = swmodel.selectionmanager
blkexist = false
set swdraw = swmodel
set swview = swdraw.getfirstview
do while not swview is nothing
debug.print "sheet name = " & swview.name
vblockdefs = swsketchmgr.getsketchblockdefinitions ' get block definitions
debug.print "block definition count = " & swsketchmgr.getsketchblockdefinitioncount
if not isempty(vblockdefs) then ' else traverse block definitions
for vblockdefcount = lbound(vblockdefs) to ubound(vblockdefs) ' loop block definition references
set swblockdef = vblockdefs(vblockdefcount)
set swfeat = swblockdef.getfeature
if swfeat.name = blkitem1 then ' verify block name
debug.print "block definition name = " & swfeat.name
vblockinsts = swblockdef.getinstances
if false = isempty(vblockinsts) then ' traverse block instances
for vblockinstcount = lbound(vblockinsts) to ubound(vblockinsts) ' loop block instance references
debug.print "block instance count = " & swblockdef.getinstancecount
set swblockinst = vblockinsts(vblockinstcount)
blkexist = swblockinst.select(false, nothing)
set swblockinst = swselmgr.getselectedobject6(1, -1)
debug.print "block instance name = " & swblockinst.name
'assign block insert point, scale & rotation elements to array
redim preserve blocksipnt(vblockinstcount) as variant
set blocksipnt(vblockinstcount) = swblockinst.instanceposition
blocksipnt(vblockinstcount) = blocksipnt(vblockinstcount).arraydata ' block insertion point
redim preserve blocksrot(vblockinstcount) as variant
blocksrot(vblockinstcount) = swblockinst.angle ' block angle
redim preserve blocksscl(vblockinstcount) as variant
blocksscl(vblockinstcount) = swblockinst.scale2 ' block scale
swmodel.clearselection2 true ' clear selection
next vblockinstcount
end if
end if
next vblockdefcount
end if
set swview = swview.getnextview
loop
if blkexist = false then ' block still doesn't exist notify user
msgbox "warning! there are no block instances in this document tab", vbexclamation, "no block instance found"
elseif blkexist = true then ' if block exist then do something to it
msgbox "got those values you wanted, now what?"
end if
end sub
'-------
did some code refinement ^
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edited: 09/11/2008 at 06:00 pm by william crosby
answer finally got it. this is it and works flawlessly. if you want to use it you need to declare your objects and vars but you get the logic.
'-------the code-------------
private sub checkforblock()
on error resume next
set swapp = application.sldworks
set swmodel = swapp.activedoc
set swsketchmgr = swmodel.sketchmanager
set swselmgr = swmodel.selectionmanager
set swdraw = swmodel
blkexist = false
' clear selections
blockval = swselmgr.deselect2(1, -1)
swmodel.clearselection2 true
vblockdefs = swsketchmgr.getsketchblockdefinitions ' get block definitions
if not isempty(vblockdefs) then ' traverse block definitions
for blockdefcount = lbound(vblockdefs) to ubound(vblockdefs) ' loop block definitions
set swblockdef = vblockdefs(blockdefcount)
set swfeat = swblockdef.getfeature
if swfeat.name = blkitem1 then ' verify block name
set swsheet = swdraw.getcurrentsheet
viewnames = swsheet.getviews
set swview = swdraw.getfirstview
set swsketch = swview.getsketch
vblockinsts = swsketch.getsketchblockinstances
if false = isempty(vblockinsts) then ' traverse block instances
for blockinstcount = lbound(vblockinsts) to ubound(vblockinsts) ' loop block instances
set swblockinst = vblockinsts(blockinstcount)
if swblockinst.name like blkitem1 & "*" then ' check the block instance name
blockval = swblockinst.select(true, nothing)
blkexist = true
set swblockinst = swselmgr.getselectedobject6(1, -1)
'assign block insert point, scale & rotation elements to array
redim preserve blocksipnt(blockinstcount) as variant
set blocksipnt(blockinstcount) = swblockinst.instanceposition
blocksipnt(blockinstcount) = blocksipnt(blockinstcount).arraydata ' block insertion point
redim preserve blocksrot(blockinstcount) as variant
blocksrot(blockinstcount) = swblockinst.angle ' block angle
redim preserve blocksscl(blockinstcount) as variant
blocksscl(blockinstcount) = swblockinst.scale2 ' block scale
swmodel.clearselection2 true ' clear selection
end if
next blockinstcount
end if
end if
next blockdefcount
end if
if blkexist = false then ' block still doesn't exist notify user
msgbox "warning! there are no block instances in this document tab", vbexclamation, "no block instance found"
elseif blkexist = true then ' if block exist then do something to it
msgbox "got those values you wanted, now what?"
end if
end sub
'----------
added one more step to verify the instance
on the face of the drawing document not just the
feature tree
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edited: 09/16/2008 at 03:08 pm by william crosby
quick