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Get Transforms of Assembly Components Example (VBA)

This example shows how to recursively retrieve the transform for each child component in an assembly.

 

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' Preconditions:

'       (1) Assembly is open.

'       (2) Assembly is fully resolved.

'

' Postconditions: None

'

' Notes:

'       (1) Root component does not have a name

'

'       (2) Root component has a NULL transform, that is, no rotation,

'           translation, or scaling

'

'       (3) All child component transforms are relative to their

'           root component

'

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Option Explicit

Sub OutputCompXform _

( _

    swComp As SldWorks.Component2, _

    nLevel As Long _

)

    Dim vChild                      As Variant

    Dim swChildComp                 As SldWorks.Component2

    Dim sPadStr                     As String

    Dim swCompXform                 As SldWorks.MathTransform

    Dim vXform                      As Variant

    Dim i                           As Long

    

    

    For i = 0 To nLevel

        sPadStr = sPadStr & "  "

    Next i

    

    ' Null for root component

    Set swCompXform = swComp.Transform2

    If Not swCompXform Is Nothing Then

        vXform = swCompXform.ArrayData

            

        ' Root component has no name

        Debug.Print sPadStr & "Component = " & swComp.Name2 & " (" & swComp.ReferencedConfiguration & ")"

        Debug.Print sPadStr & "  Suppr   = " & swComp.IsSuppressed

        Debug.Print sPadStr & "  Hidden  = " & swComp.IsHidden(False)

    

        Debug.Print sPadStr & "  Rot1  = (" + _

            Str(vXform(0)) + ", " + _

            Str(vXform(1)) + ", " + _

            Str(vXform(2)) + ")" _

    

        Debug.Print sPadStr & "  Rot2  = (" + _

            Str(vXform(3)) + ", " + _

            Str(vXform(4)) + ", " + _

            Str(vXform(5)) + ")" _

    

        Debug.Print sPadStr & "  Rot3  = (" + _

            Str(vXform(6)) + ", " + _

            Str(vXform(7)) + ", " + _

            Str(vXform(8)) + ")" _

        

        Debug.Print sPadStr & "  Trans = (" + _

            Str(vXform(9)) + ", " + _

            Str(vXform(10)) + ", " + _

            Str(vXform(11)) + ")" _

        

        Debug.Print sPadStr & "  Scale = " + Str(vXform(12))

    

        Debug.Print ""

    End If

    

    ' Recurse into subassembly

    vChild = swComp.GetChildren

    For i = 0 To UBound(vChild)

        Set swChildComp = vChild(i)

        

        OutputCompXform swChildComp, nLevel + 1

    Next i

End Sub

Sub main()

    Dim swApp                       As SldWorks.SldWorks

    Dim swModel                     As SldWorks.ModelDoc2

    Dim swConf                      As SldWorks.configuration

    Dim swRootComp                  As SldWorks.Component2

    Dim bRet                        As Boolean

    

    Set swApp = CreateObject("SldWorks.Application")

    Set swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc

    Set swConf = swModel.GetActiveConfiguration

    Set swRootComp = swConf.GetRootComponent

    

    Debug.Print "File = " & swModel.GetPathName

    

    OutputCompXform swRootComp, 0

End Sub

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