Manage Drawing Document Line Styles Example (VB.NET)
This example shows how to manage the line styles of a drawing document.
'-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Preconditions:
' 1. Ensure that the specified drawing document template
exists.
' 2. Create c:\temp.
' 3. Open an Immediate Window.
' 4. Run this macro.
'
' Postconditions:
' 1. Inspect the Immediate Window.
' 2. Line styles are saved to c:\temp\styles.sldlin.
'------------------------------------
Imports
SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks
Imports
SolidWorks.Interop.swconst
Imports
System
Imports
System.Diagnostics
Partial
Class
SolidWorksMacro
Dim
Part As
DrawingDoc
Dim
boolstatus As
Boolean
Dim
longstatus As
Long
Sub
main()
Dim
def As
String
Dim
name As
String
Part = swApp.NewDocument("<SolidWorks_install_dir>\data\Templates\drawing.drwdot",
2, 0.2794, 0.4318)
swApp.ActivateDoc2("Draw1 -
Sheet1",
False, longstatus)
printData("Line Style Data at
Start",
"")
def = "B,1.2,-0.2,2,-0.1,2"
name =
"NewOne"
boolstatus = Part.AddLineStyle(name,
def)
printData("Line Style Data After
Add", "")
Dim
names As
Object
Dim
styleNames(2) As
String
styleNames(0) =
"NewOne"
styleNames(1) =
"CHAIN"
styleNames(2) =
"PHANTOM"
names = styleNames
' Save line styles, replacing
already saved line styles
boolstatus = Part.SaveLineStyles("c:\temp\styles",
names, True)
printData("Line Style Data saved
to file ",
"c:\temp\styles")
' Delete a line style
boolstatus = Part.DeleteLineStyle("NewOne",
"STITCH")
printData("Line Style Data After
Delete",
"")
' Load saved line styles, replacing
existing line styles
boolstatus = Part.LoadLineStyles("c:\temp\styles",
names, True)
printData("Line Style Data
Imported from file",
"")
End
Sub
Sub
printData(ByVal
title As
String,
ByVal file
As
String)
Dim
names As
Object =
Nothing
Dim
types As
Object =
Nothing
Dim
namesArr() As
String
Dim
typesArr() As
String
Dim
i As
Integer
Dim
stat As
Boolean
Debug.Print("-------------------------")
Debug.Print(title)
Debug.Print("-------------------------")
If
file = ""
Then
stat = Part.GetLineStyles(names,
types)
Else
stat = swApp.GetLineStyles(file,
names, types)
End
If
namesArr = names
typesArr = types
If
stat Then
For
i = 0 To
UBound(typesArr)
Debug.Print(Str$(i) + " "
+ namesArr(i) + " "
+ typesArr(i))
Next
i
Else
MsgBox("Error
in printData")
End
If
End
Sub
Public
swApp As
SldWorks
End
Class