Delete User Parameters

[Anonymous]

Is there any way to delete a user parameter using the API?  I had
expected there to be a Delete method on a UserParameter object, but there
isn't.

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Brian R.
Iwaskewycz
Senior Mechanical Engineer
PA Transformer
Technology, Inc.

[Anonymous]

Public oProp4 As
PropertySet

    ' User Defined
Properties
    Set oProp4 =
oPart.PropertySets("{D5CDD505-2E9C-101B-9397-08002B2CF9AE}")

    If oProp4(1).Name
<> "Finish" Or oProp4(2).Name <> "MAT'L CODE" Or oProp4(3).Name
<> "MATERIAL" Or oProp4(4).Name <> "SUB NO." Or oProp4(5).Name
<> "MFG CODE" Or oProp4(6).Name <> "RSP" Or oProp4(7).Name <>
"RefPart" Then
        For Each oPropNew
In oProp4
           
oProp4(1).Delete
        Next

This routine checks for a specific
bunch of defined peoperties to be present in a certain order (though Inventor
lists alpgabetically, the sequence is whatever it is).  If they are not
there, it deletes them, one by one in the for-each statement.  Later in the
program, they are re-added.  Prior to deleting, the existing values can be
saved as variables ard re-used at re-creation time if desired.  Hope this
helps!

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Is there any way to delete a user parameter using the API?  I had
expected there to be a Delete method on a UserParameter object, but there
isn't.

---

Brian R.
Iwaskewycz
Senior Mechanical Engineer
PA
Transformer Technology, Inc.

[Anonymous]

That deletes properties - it's deleting user parameters that
I'm after, i.e.,

<document object>.ComponentDefinition.Parameters.UserParameters

It's those I can't delete.

I've written a routine that allows a linked workbook to be replaced with
another with any starting cell.  Inventor has the built-in ability to
Change Source, but Inventor always uses cell A1 as the starting cell for the new
workbook.  The workflow in pseudo-code is:

1) Delete the workbook link.  The parameters become user
parameters.

2) Rename the previously linked parameters with temporary names and
remember what each variable was renamed to.

3) Link up a new workbook at cell XX.

4) Look through the model parameters to find occurrences of the temporary
variable names and replace them with the original names (which are once again
linked).

5) Delete the temporary variables from the user parameters, because they
are unused and unnecessary.

Of course, it's step 5 above that I can't do.

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Public oProp4 As
PropertySet

    ' User Defined
Properties
    Set oProp4 =
oPart.PropertySets("{D5CDD505-2E9C-101B-9397-08002B2CF9AE}")

    If
oProp4(1).Name <> "Finish" Or oProp4(2).Name <> "MAT'L CODE" Or
oProp4(3).Name <> "MATERIAL" Or oProp4(4).Name <> "SUB NO." Or
oProp4(5).Name <> "MFG CODE" Or oProp4(6).Name <> "RSP" Or
oProp4(7).Name <> "RefPart"
Then
        For Each oPropNew In
oProp4
           
oProp4(1).Delete
       
Next

This routine checks for a specific
bunch of defined peoperties to be present in a certain order (though Inventor
lists alpgabetically, the sequence is whatever it is).  If they are not
there, it deletes them, one by one in the for-each statement.  Later in
the program, they are re-added.  Prior to deleting, the existing values
can be saved as variables ard re-used at re-creation time if desired. 
Hope this helps!