Get Selection Specification Example (C#)

This example shows how to get the selection specification of a selected object.

//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Preconditions:
// 1. Open a model document that contains at least two features.
// 2. Select two features in the FeatureManager design tree.
// 3. Open an Immediate window.
//
// Postconditions:
// 1. Gets the selection specifications of the first and second selections.
// 2. Inspect the Immediate window.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
using Microsoft.VisualBasic;
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
using SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks;
using SolidWorks.Interop.swconst;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
namespace GetSelectionSpecification_CSharp.csproj
{
    partial class SolidWorksMacro
    {
 
        ModelDoc2 Part;
        SelectionMgr SelMgr;
        Feature selObject;
        string selectByString;
        string objectTypeStr;
        int objectTypeInt;
        double X;
        double Y;
        double Z;
 
        public void Main()
        {
            Part = (ModelDoc2)swApp.ActiveDoc;
            SelMgr = (SelectionMgr)Part.SelectionManager;
 
            // Get the selection specification of the first selected object
            selObject = (Feature)SelMgr.GetSelectedObject6(1, -1);
            SelMgr.GetSelectByIdSpecification(selObject, out selectByString, out objectTypeStr, out objectTypeInt);
            Debug.Print("Name of selected feature: " + selectByString);
            Debug.Print("Type of object: " + objectTypeStr);
            Debug.Print("Type of object as defined in swSelectType_e: " + objectTypeInt);
 
            Debug.Print("");
 
            // Get the selection specification of the selected object in position 2 of the selection list
            SelMgr.GetSelectionSpecification(2, out selectByString, out objectTypeStr, out objectTypeInt, out X, out Y, out Z);
            Debug.Print("Name of selected feature: " + selectByString);
            Debug.Print("Type of object: " + objectTypeStr);
            Debug.Print("Type of object as defined in swSelectType_e: " + objectTypeInt);
            Debug.Print("X Coordinate: " + X);
            Debug.Print("Y Coordinate: " + Y);
            Debug.Print("Z Coordinate: " + Z);
 
        }
 
 
        public SldWorks swApp;
 
    }
}