Open Specified Sheet in Drawing Document Example (C#)

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

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// 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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using SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks;

using SolidWorks.Interop.swconst;

using System;

namespace SheetNameDocumentSpecificationCSharp.csproj

{

    partial class SolidWorksMacro

    {

        public void Main()

        {

            ModelDoc2 swModel = default(ModelDoc2);

            DocumentSpecification swDocSpecification = default(DocumentSpecification);

            string sName = null;

            long longstatus = 0;

            long longwarnings = 0;

 

            // Drawing document path and name         

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

            sName = swDocSpecification.FileName;

 

            // Sheet name         

            swDocSpecification.SheetName = "Sheet2";

            swDocSpecification.DocumentType = (int)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;

 

        }

        /// <summary>     

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

        /// </summary>     

        public SldWorks swApp;

    }

}