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Get Visibility of and Resolve Lightweight Components Example (VBA)

This example shows how to get the visibility of and resolve lightweight components.

 

'----------------------------------------------------

'

' Preconditions: Assembly is open.

'

' Postconditions: Lightweight components are resolved.

'

'----------------------------------------------------

Option Explicit

Public Enum swComponentResolveStatus_e

    swResolveOk = 0

    swResolveAbortedByUser = 1

    swResolveNotPerformed = 2

    swResolveError = 3

End Enum

'  Visibility information possible for components

Public Enum swComponentVisibilityState_e

    swComponentHidden = 0

    swComponentVisible = 1

End Enum

Sub GetComponentVisib _

( _

    swComp As SldWorks.Component2, _

    sPadStr As String _

)

    Dim vChildArray         As Variant

    Dim swChildComp         As SldWorks.Component2

    Dim i                   As Long

    

    ' Root component has no name (empty string)

    Debug.Print sPadStr & swComp.Name2 & " [" & swComp.Visible & "]"

    

    vChildArray = swComp.GetChildren

    For i = 0 To UBound(vChildArray)

        Set swChildComp = vChildArray(i)

        GetComponentVisib swChildComp, sPadStr & "  "

    Next i

End Sub

Sub main()

    Dim swApp               As SldWorks.SldWorks

    Dim swModel             As SldWorks.ModelDoc2

    Dim swAssy              As SldWorks.AssemblyDoc

    Dim swConfig            As SldWorks.Configuration

    Dim swConfMgr         As SldWorks.ConfigurationManager

    Dim swRootComp          As SldWorks.Component2

    Dim nStatus             As Long

    

    Set swApp = CreateObject("SldWorks.Application")

    Set swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc

    Set swAssy = swModel

    Set swConfMgr = swModel.ConfigurationManager

    Set swConfig = swConfMgr.ActiveConfiguration

    Set swRootComp = swConfig.GetRootComponent

    nStatus = swAssy.ResolveAllLightWeightComponents(False)

    Debug.Assert swResolveOk = nStatus

        

    Debug.Print "File = " & swModel.GetPathName

    

    GetComponentVisib swRootComp, "  "

End Sub



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