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Copy Document and Its Dependencies Example (VB.NET)

This example shows how to copy a document and its dependencies to this macro's folder.

'---------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Preconditions: Open an assembly document.
'
' Postconditions:
' 1. Closes the assembly document.
' 2. Copies the assembly document and its dependencies to the macro folder.
' 3. Examine the macro folder.
'---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Imports SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks Imports SolidWorks.Interop.swconst Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices Imports System
Partial Class SolidWorksMacro
Sub main()
Dim source As String Dim target As String Dim sourcefile As String Dim traverse As Boolean Dim search As Boolean Dim addreadonlyinfo As Boolean Dim depends As Object Dim sourcefiles() As String = Nothing Dim targetfiles() As String = Nothing Dim idx As Integer Dim sourcecount As Integer Dim copyopt As Integer Dim errors As Integer Dim doc As ModelDoc2
doc = swApp.ActiveDoc
source = swApp.GetCurrentWorkingDirectory sourcefile = doc.GetPathName
target = swApp.GetCurrentMacroPathName target = Left(target, InStrRev(target,
"\"))
traverse =
True search = True addreadonlyinfo = False depends = swApp.GetDocumentDependencies2(sourcefile, traverse, search, addreadonlyinfo)

If IsNothing(depends) Then Exit Sub
    idx = 1     While idx <= UBound(depends)         ReDim Preserve sourcefiles(sourcecount)         ReDim Preserve targetfiles(sourcecount)
        sourcefiles(sourcecount) = depends(idx)         targetfiles(sourcecount) = target + Right(sourcefiles(sourcecount), Len(sourcefiles(sourcecount)) - InStrRev(sourcefiles(sourcecount),
"\"))         sourcecount = sourcecount + 1         idx = idx + 2     End While
    swApp.CloseAllDocuments(True)
    copyopt = swMoveCopyOptions_e.swMoveCopyOptionsOverwriteExistingDocs     errors = swApp.CopyDocument(source + sourcefile, target + sourcefile, (sourcefiles), (targetfiles), copyopt)
End Sub
Public swApp As SldWorks
End Class


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