Function GetAllExternalReferences4( _
   ByVal pSrcOption As SwDMSearchOption, _
   ByRef brokenRefVar As Object, _
   ByRef IsVirtual As Object, _
   ByRef TimeStamp As Object _
) As Object

Dim instance As ISwDMDocument13
Dim pSrcOption As SwDMSearchOption
Dim brokenRefVar As Object
Dim IsVirtual As Object
Dim TimeStamp As Object
Dim value As Object
 
value = instance.GetAllExternalReferences4(pSrcOption, brokenRefVar, IsVirtual, TimeStamp)

object GetAllExternalReferences4( 
   SwDMSearchOption pSrcOption,
   out object brokenRefVar,
   out object IsVirtual,
   out object TimeStamp
)

Object^ GetAllExternalReferences4( 
&   SwDMSearchOption^ pSrcOption,
&   [Out] Object^ brokenRefVar,
&   [Out] Object^ IsVirtual,
&   [Out] Object^ TimeStamp
) 

Parameters

pSrcOption

Pointer to the ISwDMSearchOption object

brokenRefVar

Array of the statuses of any broken external references as defined in swDmReferenceStatus (see Remarks)

IsVirtual

Array of Booleans that indicate whether each reference corresponds to a virtual component

TimeStamp

Array of time stamps in time_t format

Return Value

VBA:

    Dim refs As Variant

    Dim brokenRefs As Variant

    Dim isVirtual As Variant

    Dim timestamps As Variant

    refs = swDMDoc.GetAllExternalReferences4(searchOption, refs, isVirtual, timestamps)

    Dim dTimeStamp As Double

    dTimeStamp = timestamps(0)

    dTimeStamp = dTimeStamp / (24# * 60# * 60#)

    Dim dateTimeStamp As Date

    dateTimeStamp = CDate(dTimeStamp) + CDate("00:00:00 1/1/1970")

This method only supports model documents saved in SolidWorks 2009 and later.

Although this method returns valid data for files created in SolidWorks 2005 and earlier, this method only returns valid data for the brokenRefVar argument for files created in SolidWorks 2005 files and later. For files created in versions of SolidWorks earlier than SolidWorks 2005, it returns swDmReferenceStatusUnknown for brokenRefVar.

Call this method before calling ISwDMDocument::ReplaceReference.

The SolidWorks Document Manager API applies the same rules when searching for a reference as described in the SolidWorks Help. The mix-and-match of sub-folder combinations is applied to the current document, which for the SolidWorks Document Manager is the document attached using ISwDMApplication::GetDocument and the reference being searched for. You can set up the list of folders to be searched using ISwDMSearchOption::AddSearchPath, which is equivalent to using the SolidWorks user-interface commands Tools, Options, System Options, File Locations, Referenced Documents.

Two differences between SolidWorks and the SolidWorks Document Manager API searches are:

• the path of the last opened visible top-level document (drawing or assembly) is not tried directly.

• the last user path is not tried directly.

as these concepts have little meaning when SolidWorks is not running.

SolidWorks does not open suppressed components of assemblies in memory. Thus, information, such as a suppressed component's time stamp, is not updated when the assembly is rebuilt. You can call ISwDMComponent6::PathName to compare the path returned by ISwDMDocument13::GetAllExternalReferences4 and call ISwDMComponent::IsSuppressed to find out if the component is suppressed.

Because the search routine is shared between SolidWorks and the SolidWorks Document Manager API, most of the same changes apply going from SolidWorks 2006 to SolidWorks 2007 and later. However, one significant change related to caching of resolved paths for references being searched for in SolidWorks does not apply to the SolidWorks Document Manager API. In SolidWorks 2007 and later, the next time these references are needed, a simple lookup suffices instead of a potentially lengthy search. However, because this caching mechanism was not applied to the SolidWorks Document Manager API, the SolidWorks Document Manager API in 2006 and 2007, and later, exhibit similar behavior.

The array of timestamps are in time_t format, which Microsoft defines "as time as seconds elapsed since midnight, January 1, 1970 or -1 in the case of error". You must either have built-in functions to convert these values to something more accessible or write your own functions.