Open Specified Sheet in Drawing Document Example (VB.NET)

This example shows how to open a specific sheet when programmatically opening a drawing document.

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

' Preconditions: Specified drawing document exists

'                on your system.

'

' Postconditions: Specified sheet in specified drawing document

'                 is opened as view-only.

'

' NOTE: Because this drawing document is used by

'       a SolidWorks online tutorial, do not save

'       any changes made to the document when closing it.

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Imports SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks

Imports SolidWorks.Interop.swconst

Imports System

Partial Class SolidWorksMacro

    Public Sub main()

        Dim swModel As ModelDoc2

        Dim swDocSpecification As DocumentSpecification

        Dim sName As String

        Dim longstatus As Long, longwarnings As Long

        ' Drawing document path and name

        swDocSpecification = swApp.GetOpenDocSpec("C:\Program Files\SolidWorks Corp\SolidWorks\samples\tutorial\advdrawings\foodprocessor.slddrw")

        sName = swDocSpecification.FileName

        ' Sheet name

        swDocSpecification.SheetName = "Sheet2"

        swDocSpecification.DocumentType = swDocumentTypes_e.swDocDRAWING

        swDocSpecification.ReadOnly = True

        swDocSpecification.Silent = False

        ' Open the specified sheet in the specified drawing document

        swModel = swApp.OpenDoc7(swDocSpecification)

        longstatus = swDocSpecification.Error

        longwarnings = swDocSpecification.Warning

    End Sub

    ''' <summary>

    ''' The SldWorks swApp variable is pre-assigned for you.

    ''' </summary>

    Public swApp As SldWorks

End Class