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Disable Selection of Faces and Edges Using a Pre-Notify Event Example (VB.NET)

This example shows how to disable the interactive selection of:

  • faces in part and assembly documents

  • edges in drawing documents

using a pre-notify event.

'------------------------------------

' Preconditions:

' 1. Part, assembly, or drawing document is active.

' 2. Run this macro (press F5).

'

' NOTE: Tools > Options > Stop VSTA debugger on macro

' exit must not be selected for this macro

' to run to completion.

'

' Postconditions:

' 1. If a part or assembly document is open,

'    then you cannot interactively select faces in

'    that document.

' 2. If a drawing document is open, then

'    you cannot interactively select edges in that

'    document.

' 3. Click the Stop Debugging button in the

'    SolidWorks Visual Studio Tools for

'    Applications IDE to re-enable the

'    interactive selection of faces in

'    a part or assembly document or edges in

'    a drawing document.

'----------------------------------------

Imports SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks

Imports SolidWorks.Interop.swconst

Imports System

Imports System.Collections

 

Partial Class SolidWorksMacro

 

    Public WithEvents pDoc As PartDoc

    Public WithEvents aDoc As AssemblyDoc

    Public WithEvents dDoc As DrawingDoc

 

    Public Sub main()

 

        Dim swModel As ModelDoc2

        Dim openPart As Hashtable

        Dim openAssembly As Hashtable

        Dim openDrawing As Hashtable

 

        swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc

 

        ' Determine the document type

        ' and set up event handlers

        If swModel.GetType = swDocumentTypes_e.swDocPART Then

            pDoc = swModel

            openPart = New Hashtable

        ElseIf swModel.GetType = swDocumentTypes_e.swDocASSEMBLY Then

            aDoc = swModel

            openAssembly = New Hashtable

        ElseIf swModel.GetType = swDocumentTypes_e.swDocDRAWING Then

            dDoc = swModel

            openDrawing = New Hashtable

        End If

 

        AttachEventHandlers()

 

    End Sub

 

    Sub AttachEventHandlers()

        AttachSWEvents()

    End Sub

 

    Sub AttachSWEvents()

        If Not pDoc Is Nothing Then

            AddHandler pDoc.UserSelectionPreNotify, AddressOf Me.pDoc_UserSelectionPreNotify

        End If

        If Not aDoc Is Nothing Then

            AddHandler aDoc.UserSelectionPreNotify, AddressOf Me.aDoc_UserSelectionPreNotify

        End If

        If Not dDoc Is Nothing Then

            AddHandler dDoc.UserSelectionPreNotify, AddressOf Me.dDoc_UserSelectionPreNotify

        End If

    End Sub

 

    Private Function pDoc_UserSelectionPreNotify(ByVal SelectionType As Integer) As Integer

        ' Disable the selection of faces in this part

        If SelectionType = swSelectType_e.swSelFACES Then

            pDoc_UserSelectionPreNotify = True

        End If

    End Function

 

    Public Function aDoc_UserSelectionPreNotify(ByVal SelectionType As Integer) As Integer

        ' Disable the selection of faces in this assembly

        If SelectionType = swSelectType_e.swSelFACES Then

            aDoc_UserSelectionPreNotify = True

        End If

    End Function

 

    Private Function dDoc_UserSelectionPreNotify(ByVal SelectionType As Integer) As Integer

        ' Disable the selection of edges in this drawing

        If SelectionType = swSelectType_e.swSelEDGES Then

            dDoc_UserSelectionPreNotify = True

        End If

    End Function

 

    ''' <summary>

    ''' The SldWorks swApp variable is pre-assigned for you.

    ''' </summary>

    Public swApp As SldWorks

 

End Class



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