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Make All Assembly Components Visible Example (VBA)

This example shows how to make all assembly components visible.

'---------------------------------------
' Preconditions:
' 1. Open an assembly.
' 2. Hide a component (right-click the component in
'    the FeatureManager design tree and click the
'    Hide Components button.
' 3. Open the Immediate window.
'
'
' Postconditions:
' 1. Shows the hidden component.
' 2. Examine the Immediate window, FeatureManager
'    design tree, and graphics area.
'---------------------------------------
Option Explicit
Sub TraverseComponent(swComp As SldWorks.Component2, nLevel As Long)
    Dim vChildCompArr As Variant
    Dim vChildComp As Variant
    Dim swChildComp As SldWorks.Component2
    Dim swCompConfig As SldWorks.Configuration
    Dim sPadStr As String
    Dim i As Long
    For i = 0 To nLevel - 1
        sPadStr = sPadStr + "  "
    Next i    
    vChildCompArr = swComp.GetChildren
    For Each vChildComp In vChildCompArr
        Set swChildComp = vChildComp
        Debug.Print sPadStr & swChildComp.Name2 & " <" & swChildComp.ReferencedConfiguration & ">"
        If swComponentHidden = swChildComp.Visible Then
            swChildComp.Visible = swComponentVisible
        End If
        TraverseComponent swChildComp, nLevel + 1
    Next
End Sub 
Sub main()
    Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks
    Dim swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2
    Dim swAssy As SldWorks.AssemblyDoc
    Dim swConf As SldWorks.Configuration
    Dim swRootComp As SldWorks.Component2
    Dim bRet As Boolean    
    Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
    Set swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc
    Set swConf = swModel.GetActiveConfiguration
    Set swRootComp = swConf.GetRootComponent
    Debug.Print "File = " & swModel.GetPathName
    TraverseComponent swRootComp, 1
End Sub


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