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Insert Revision Cloud into a Drawing Example (C#)

This example shows how to insert revision clouds into a drawing and access revision cloud data.

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Preconditions: Open public_documents\samples\tutorial\api\resetsketchvisibility.slddrw.
//
// Postconditions:
// 1. Inserts an elliptical revision cloud in the drawing.
// 2. Examine the Immediate window.
//
// NOTE: Because the drawing is used elsewhere, do not save changes.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 InsertRevisionCloud_CSharp.csproj
{
    
partial class SolidWorksMacro
    {

        
DrawingDoc Part;
        
RevisionCloud RevCloud;
        
Annotation RevCloudAnno;

        
bool boolstatus;

        
public void Main()
        {
            Part = (
DrawingDoc)swApp.ActiveDoc;
            boolstatus = Part.ActivateView(
"Drawing View1");

            
// Create a revision cloud with an elliptical shape
            RevCloud = (RevisionCloud)Part.InsertRevisionCloud(1);
            
if ((RevCloud != null))
            {
                RevCloudAnno = (
Annotation)RevCloud.GetAnnotation();
                
if ((RevCloudAnno != null))
                {
                    
// Position the center of the elliptical revision cloud
                    boolstatus = RevCloudAnno.SetPosition(0.270847371964905, 0.553263328912467, 0);
                    RevCloud.ArcRadius = 0.00508;
                    
// Create a path point on the corner of an ellipse-inscribed rectangle
                    boolstatus = RevCloud.SetPathPointAtIndex(-1, 0.378419710263212, 0.511051398694144, 0);
                    
// Close the revision cloud path
                    boolstatus = RevCloud.Finalize();
                }
            }

        }


        
public SldWorks swApp;

    }
}

 



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