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Open an Assembly in Large Design Review Mode Example (C#)

This example shows how to open an assembly in Large Design Review mode.

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Preconditions: Open a large assembly document in Large Design Review mode.
//
// Run macro: Click OK in the Name Snapshot dialog box.
//
// Postconditions:
// 1. A section view is created.
// 2. Four snapshots are created in DisplayManager:
//    * Home
//    * ASnap
//    * Snap2
//    * Snap3
//    Inspect the Immediate window for snapshot information.
// 3. All of the components in the assembly are hidden.
//    Inspect the Immediate window for the names of the hidden components.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
using Microsoft.VisualBasic;
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks;
using SolidWorks.Interop.swconst;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace Snapshot_CSharp.csproj
{
    
partial class SolidWorksMacro
    {
        
AssemblyDoc Part;
        
ModelDoc2 Model;
        
SnapShot snap;
        
object[] comps;
        
object[] snaps;
        
SnapShot snap1;
        
SnapShot snap2;
        
SnapShot snap3;
        
int i;
        
bool boolstatus;
        
        
public void Main()
        {
            Part = (
AssemblyDoc)swApp.ActiveDoc;
            Model = (
ModelDoc2)Part;

            
// Create section view
            SectionViewData sViewData = default(SectionViewData);
            sViewData = Model.ModelViewManager.CreateSectionViewData();
            sViewData.FirstPlane =
null;
            sViewData.FirstReverseDirection =
false;
            sViewData.FirstOffset = -0.00508;
            sViewData.FirstRotationX = 0;
            sViewData.FirstRotationY = 0;
            sViewData.FirstColor = 16711680;
            sViewData.ShowSectionCap =
true;
            sViewData.KeepCapColor =
true;

            
ModelViewManager mvmgr = default(ModelViewManager);
            mvmgr = Model.ModelViewManager;
            boolstatus = mvmgr.CreateSectionView(sViewData);
            Model.ClearSelection2(
true);
            Model.ShowNamedView2(
"*Front", 1);
            Model.ShowNamedView2(
"*Dimetric", 9);

            
// Add a named snapshot
            snap1 = mvmgr.AddSnapShot("ASnap");
            
// Open dialog box to name the next snapshot
            snap2 = mvmgr.AddSnapShot("?");
            
// Add a snapshot with the next default name
            snap3 = mvmgr.AddSnapShot("");

            snap1.Comment =
"<TS> This is a comment for ASnap.";

            snaps = (
object[])mvmgr.GetSnapShots();

            
for (i = 0; i <= snaps.GetUpperBound(0); i++)
            {
                snap = (
SnapShot)snaps[i];
                snap.Activate();
                
Debug.Print("Snapshot name: " + snap.Name);
                
Debug.Print("      Comment: " + snap.Comment);
                
Debug.Print("       ViewID: " + snap.ViewId);
            }

            
Component2 comp = default(Component2);
            comps = (
object[])Part.GetComponents(false);
            
Debug.Print("");
            
Debug.Print("SelectByID names of components:");
            
Debug.Print("");
            
for (i = 0; i <= comps.GetUpperBound(0); i++)
            {
                comp = (
Component2)comps[i];
                
if (comp.IsRoot())
                {
                    
Debug.Print("Root Component " + comp.GetSelectByIDString());
                }
                
else
                {
                    
Debug.Print("     " + comp.GetSelectByIDString());
                    
// Hide each component in the assembly
                    comp.Visible = 0;
                }
            }

            
// OPTIONAL: Select one or more components
            // in the FeatureManager design tree
            //
            // Fully resolve only the selected components
            Part.SelectiveOpen(true, false);

        }

        
public SldWorks swApp;

    }
}

 



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