Copy and Paste Appearances Example (C#)

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Preconditions:
// 1. Open public_documents\introsw\vanity_assembly.sldasm.
// 2. Press F5 repeatedly while observing the changes in the appearances of
//    entities in the model.
//
// Postconditions: None
//
// Note: Because the model is used elsewhere, do not save changes when closing.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 CopyAndPasteAppearances_CSharp.csproj
{
    partial class SolidWorksMacro
    {

        ModelDoc2 Part;

        bool boolstatus;

        public void Main()
        {
            Part = (ModelDoc2)swApp.ActiveDoc;

            object pEnt = null;
            SelectionMgr selMgr = default(SelectionMgr);
            selMgr = (SelectionMgr)Part.SelectionManager;

            Debug.Print("Selected a face, feature, body, component, or part and copied its appearance to the clipboard.");
            boolstatus = Part.Extension.SelectByID2("", "FACE", -0.196625056591301, -0.204766940654167, 0.863250195790926, false, 0, null, 0);
            pEnt = selMgr.GetSelectedObject6(1, -1);
            boolstatus = swApp.CopyAppearance(pEnt);

            Debug.Print("Selected a face to which was applied the copied appearance.");
            boolstatus = Part.Extension.SelectByID2("", "FACE", 0.273402696806954, 0.0150637315567224, 0.26416741603316, false, 0, null, 0);
            pEnt = selMgr.GetSelectedObject6(1, -1);
            boolstatus = swApp.PasteAppearance(pEnt, (int)swAppearanceTargetType_e.swAppearanceTargetFace);
            System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();

            Debug.Print("Selected a face to whose component was applied the copied appearance.");
            boolstatus = Part.Extension.SelectByID2("", "FACE", -2.59512148343788E-02, 0.178648261563922, 1.13882797742889, false, 0, null, 0);
            pEnt = selMgr.GetSelectedObject6(1, -1);
            boolstatus = swApp.PasteAppearance(pEnt, (int)swAppearanceTargetType_e.swAppearanceTargetComponent);
            System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();

            Debug.Print("Selected a face to whose feature was applied the copied appearance.");
            boolstatus = Part.Extension.SelectByID2("", "FACE", -0.00438233207216854, 0.239755098177056, 0.383214316118654, false, 0, null, 0);
            pEnt = selMgr.GetSelectedObject6(1, -1);
            boolstatus = swApp.PasteAppearance(pEnt, (int)swAppearanceTargetType_e.swAppearanceTargetFeature);
            System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();

            Debug.Print("Selected a face to whose part was applied the copied appearance.");
            boolstatus = Part.Extension.SelectByID2("", "FACE", -0.0112719408850239, 0.0695930730344685, 0.505696689751943, false, 0, null, 0);
            pEnt = selMgr.GetSelectedObject6(1, -1);
            boolstatus = swApp.PasteAppearance(pEnt, (int)swAppearanceTargetType_e.swAppearanceTargetPart);
            System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();

            Debug.Print("Selected a component to which was applied the copied appearance.");
            boolstatus = Part.Extension.SelectByID2("door-1@vanity_assembly", "COMPONENT", 0, 0, 0, false, 0, null, 0);
            pEnt = selMgr.GetSelectedObject6(1, -1);
            // The second parameter of SldWorks::PasteAppearance is ignored, if the selected object is not a face.
            boolstatus = swApp.PasteAppearance(pEnt, (int)swAppearanceTargetType_e.swAppearanceTargetAppearanceFilter);
            System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();

        }

        public SldWorks swApp;
    }


}