Traverse Assembly and Hide All Sketches Example (VBA)

This example shows how to traverse an assembly and hide all sketches.

'------------------------------------------------------------------
' Preconditions:
' 1. Open an assembly document.
' 2. In the FeatureManager design tree, show some sketches by
'    expanding a component, expanding one or more features
'    in that component, right-clicking each sketch in each of
'    the expanded features, and clicking Show in each
'    context-sensitive menu.
' 3. Examine the graphics area and locate the shown sketches.
' 4. Open the Immediate window.
'
' Postconditions:
' 1. Opens the specified assembly document.
' 2. Hides all shown sketches in the assembly.
' 3. Examine the Immediate window and the graphics area.
'------------------------------------------------------------------
Option Explicit

Sub BlankSketchFeature(swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks, swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2, swFeat As SldWorks.Feature)
    Dim bRet  As Boolean
    If "ProfileFeature" = swFeat.GetTypeName Then
        bRet = swFeat.Select2(False, 0): Debug.Assert bRet
        swModel.BlankSketch
    End If
End Sub

Sub TraverseFeatureFeatures(swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks, swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2, swFeat As SldWorks.Feature, nLevel As Long)
    Dim swSubFeat As SldWorks.Feature
    Dim swSubSubFeat As SldWorks.Feature
    Dim swSubSubSubFeat As SldWorks.Feature
    Dim sPadStr As String
    Dim i As Long

    For i = 0 To nLevel
        sPadStr = sPadStr + "  "
    Next i

    Dim bRet As Boolean

    If "Annotations" <> swFeat.Name Then
        bRet = swFeat.Select2(True, 0): Debug.Assert bRet
    End If

    While Not swFeat Is Nothing
        Debug.Print sPadStr + swFeat.Name + " [" + swFeat.GetTypeName + "]"
        BlankSketchFeature swApp, swModel, swFeat
        Set swSubFeat = swFeat.GetFirstSubFeature
        While Not swSubFeat Is Nothing
            Debug.Print sPadStr + "  " + swSubFeat.Name + " [" + swSubFeat.GetTypeName + "]"
            BlankSketchFeature swApp, swModel, swSubFeat
            Set swSubSubFeat = swSubFeat.GetFirstSubFeature
            While Not swSubSubFeat Is Nothing
                Debug.Print sPadStr + "    " + swSubSubFeat.Name + " [" + swSubSubFeat.GetTypeName + "]"
                BlankSketchFeature swApp, swModel, swSubSubFeat
                Set swSubSubSubFeat = swSubFeat.GetFirstSubFeature
                While Not swSubSubSubFeat Is Nothing
                    Debug.Print sPadStr + "      " + swSubSubSubFeat.Name + " [" + swSubSubSubFeat.GetTypeName + "]"
                    BlankSketchFeature swApp, swModel, swSubSubSubFeat
                    Set swSubSubSubFeat = swSubSubSubFeat.GetNextSubFeature()
                Wend
                Set swSubSubFeat = swSubSubFeat.GetNextSubFeature()
            Wend
            Set swSubFeat = swSubFeat.GetNextSubFeature()
        Wend
        Set swFeat = swFeat.GetNextFeature
    Wend
End Sub

Sub TraverseComponentFeatures(swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks, swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2, swComp As SldWorks.Component2, nLevel As Long)
    Dim swFeat As SldWorks.Feature

    Set swFeat = swComp.FirstFeature
    TraverseFeatureFeatures swApp, swModel, swFeat, nLevel
End Sub

Sub TraverseComponent(swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks, swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2, swComp As SldWorks.Component2, nLevel As Long)
    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

    vChildComp = swComp.GetChildren
    For i = 0 To UBound(vChildComp)
        Set swChildComp = vChildComp(i)
        Debug.Print sPadStr & "+" & swChildComp.Name2 & " <" & swChildComp.ReferencedConfiguration & ">"
        TraverseComponentFeatures swApp, swModel, swChildComp, nLevel
        TraverseComponent swApp, swModel, swChildComp, nLevel + 1
    Next i
End Sub

Sub TraverseModelFeatures(swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks, swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2, nLevel As Long)
    Dim swFeat As SldWorks.Feature

    Set swFeat = swModel.FirstFeature
    TraverseFeatureFeatures swApp, swModel, swFeat, nLevel
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 nStart As Long
    Dim bRet As Boolean

    Set swApp = Application.SldWorks 
    Set swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc
    Set swConf = swModel.GetActiveConfiguration
    Set swRootComp = swConf.GetRootComponent3(True)

    nStart = Timer

    Debug.Print "File = " & swModel.GetPathName    

    ' Traverse the assembly and hide all shown sketches
    TraverseModelFeatures swApp, swModel, 1
    TraverseComponent swApp, swModel, swRootComp, 1    

    Debug.Print ""
    Debug.Print "Time to traverse the assembly = " & Timer - nStart & " seconds"
    

End Sub