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Add Autoballoon to Face (C#)

This example adds an autoballoon to a face in a drawing view.

//-------------------------------------
// Preconditions:
//   Specified drawing document exits.
//
// Postconditions:
// 1. Specified drawing document is opened.
// 2. An autoballoon is attached to a face in the
//    the selected drawing view
.
// 3. Interactively zoom in where
//    the balloon was attached to
//    verify that it was attached to
//    a face.
//
// NOTE: Because this drawing is used in a
// a SolidWorks tutorial, do not save any
// changes when closing the document.
//--------------------------------------
using SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks;
using SolidWorks.Interop.swconst;
using System;

namespace AutoBalloon4DrawingDocCSharp.csproj
{
    
partial class SolidWorksMacro
    {


        
public void Main()
        {
            ModelDoc2 swModel =
default(ModelDoc2);
            DrawingDoc swDraw =
default(DrawingDoc);
            ModelDocExtension swModelDocExt =
default(ModelDocExtension);
            
string drawing = null;
            
int errors = 0;
            
int warnings = 0;
            
bool status = false;
            
object[] notes = null;

            drawing =
"C:\\Program Files\\SolidWorks Corp\\SolidWorks\\samples\\tutorial\\advdrawings\\foodprocessor.slddrw";
            swModel = (ModelDoc2)swApp.OpenDoc6(drawing, (
int)swDocumentTypes_e.swDocDRAWING, (int)swOpenDocOptions_e.swOpenDocOptions_Silent, "", ref errors, ref warnings);
            swDraw = (DrawingDoc)swModel;
            swModelDocExt = (ModelDocExtension)swModel.Extension;

            
// Select a view in the drawing
            status = swModelDocExt.SelectByID2("Drawing View1", "DRAWINGVIEW", 0.2186798453432, 0.2744441083077, 0, false, 0, null, 0);

            
// Insert a split-circle autoballoon,
            // using the document's default upper-text
            // and lower-text content, and
            // attach balloon to a face
            notes = (object[])swDraw.AutoBalloon4((int)swBalloonLayoutType_e.swDetailingBalloonLayout_Square, false, (int)swBalloonStyle_e.swBS_SplitCirc, (int)swBalloonFit_e.swBF_5Chars, -1, "", -1, "", "FORMAT", true);


        }

        
/// <summary>
        /// The SldWorks swApp variable is pre-assigned for you.
        /// </summary>

        public
SldWorks swApp;

    }
}





 

 



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