Get All Sketch Segments in Drawing Template Example (VBA)

This example shows how to get all of the sketch segments in a drawing template.

 

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' Preconditions: Drawing document is open.

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' Postconditions: All sketch segments in the drawing template are selected.

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Option Explicit

Public Enum swSketchSegments_e

    swSketchLINE = 0

    swSketchARC = 1

    swSketchELLIPSE = 2

    swSketchSPLINE = 3

    swSketchTEXT = 4

    swSketchPARABOLA = 5

End Enum

Sub main()

    Dim swApp                       As SldWorks.SldWorks

    Dim swModel                     As SldWorks.ModelDoc2

    Dim swDraw                      As SldWorks.DrawingDoc

    Dim swView                      As SldWorks.View

    Dim swSketch                    As SldWorks.Sketch

    Dim swSketchSeg                 As SldWorks.SketchSegment

    Dim swSelMgr                    As SldWorks.SelectionMgr

    Dim swSelData                   As SldWorks.SelectData

    Dim vSketchSeg                  As Variant

    Dim vSketchSegID                As Variant

    Dim i                           As Long

    Dim bRet                        As Boolean

    Set swApp = CreateObject("SldWorks.Application")

    Set swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc

    Set swSelMgr = swModel.SelectionManager

    Set swSelData = swSelMgr.CreateSelectData

    Set swDraw = swModel

    

    swDraw.EditTemplate

    

    ' This is the drawing template

    Set swSketch = swModel.GetActiveSketch2

    

    Debug.Print "File = " & swModel.GetPathName

    

    swModel.ClearSelection2 (True)

    

    vSketchSeg = swSketch.GetSketchSegments

    For i = 0 To UBound(vSketchSeg)

        Set swSketchSeg = vSketchSeg(i)

        

        vSketchSegID = swSketchSeg.GetId

        

        Debug.Print "    SketchSegID(" & i & ") = [" & vSketchSegID(0) & ", " & vSketchSegID(1) & "]"

        Debug.Print "      Type       = " & swSketchSeg.GetType

        Debug.Print "      Length     = " & swSketchSeg.GetLength

        

        bRet = swSketchSeg.Select4(True, swSelData)

        Debug.Assert bRet

    Next

End Sub