Get File path of selected item

[pball]

I'm looking to get the file path of a selected part/assembly while inside of an assembly. I think I found something that can get it but the example is just different enough I can't figure it out and I don't have time to play with it. There also might be an easier way I couldn't find while searching.

This is the example code that seems to be able to do loads of things including get the full path, if you know what you're doing.

http://modthemachine.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/10/program-prototyping.html

[FarrenYoung]

I'm not sure if you meant that you need to get the path in your own program or if you were trying to create a utility that would do this for you. If you just want a utility that will do this for you and if you are running Inventor 2013 or later there is a nice app in the Inventor App Exchange that does this.
http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/INVNTOR/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3ainventorf...

[pball]

That isn't really what I'm looking for. I want the full path of a select part/assembly inside of an assembly using VBA code.

[nagwani]

Hi There,

The sample VBA code below gets the path of selected occurrence in an assembly document.

Hope this helps!

-Ishwar N

Sub TestOccPath()
    Dim odoc As AssemblyDocument
    Set odoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
    
    Dim obj As Object
    Set obj = odoc.SelectSet.Item(1)
    
    Dim occ As ComponentOccurrence
    Set occ = obj
    Dim spath As String
    spath = getOccPath(occ)
End Sub

Public Function getOccPath(ByVal m_occ As Inventor.ComponentOccurrence) As String
    Dim m_name As String
    If m_occ.OccurrencePath.Count = 1 Then
        ' The occurenace path is name of parent assembly + current componnet
        getOccPath = m_occ.Name
        Exit Function
    Else
        'build up occurrent path in case of nested component
        Dim m_occtemp As Inventor.ComponentOccurrence
        For Each m_occtemp In m_occ.OccurrencePath
            m_name = m_name + m_occtemp.Name + "\"
        Next
        Mid(m_name, Len(m_name)) = " " 'replace last "\" with space
        getOccPath = Trim(m_name)
        Exit Function
    End If
End Function

[GeorgK]

Sub get_Path()
    Dim FullFileName As String
    Dim FilePath As String
    FullFileName = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.FullFileName
    FilePath = Left(FullFileName, InStrRev(FullFileName, "\"))
    ThisApplication.Caption = FullFileName  'FilePath
    MsgBox "File Path: " & FilePath, vbOKOnly, FilePath
    MsgBox "Full File Name: " & FullFileName, vbOKOnly, FullFileName
    Variable = InputBox("Path", "Input", FullFileName, 1, 1)
   
    Shell "explorer.exe /e, """ & FilePath & """", vbNormalFocus
    
   Shell "Explorer.exe /e,/select, """ & FullFileName & """", vbNormalFocus
End Sub

[pball]

nagwani

Your code is returning the name in the browser tree which I don't trust since it can wrong and that doesn't help with the path. Also it doesn't appear to work if you are editing a subassembly.

GeorgK

I'm not quite sure what your code does.

[nagwani · Accepted solution]

HI,

It seems tha you want full path of selected occurrence. The sample code shown below demonstrates same.

Regards,

-Ishwar N

Sub geSelectedPath()
Dim obj As Object
Set obj = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.SelectSet.Item(1)
If (TypeOf obj Is ComponentOccurrence) Then
   Dim occ As ComponentOccurrence
   Set occ = obj
   Debug.Print occ.Definition.Document.FullFileName
End If
End Sub

[pball]

Thanks, that's exactly what I'm looking for.

[akosi]

how to use the path that is printed using debug.print

and open that file?

[pball]

Sub openselected()
  Dim obj As Object
  Set obj = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.SelectSet.Item(1)
  If (TypeOf obj Is ComponentOccurrence) Then
     Dim occ As ComponentOccurrence
     Set occ = obj
     Set odrawdoc = ThisApplication.Documents.Open(occ.Definition.Document.FullFileName, True)
     odrawdoc.Activate
  End If
End Sub

 I replaced the debug.print with the commands to open the drawing. The first new line opens the drawing and the second line activates it.