How to delete a surfacebody with apprentice

[Anonymous]

Hi!

Environment:

Inventor 2013 professional, VS 2010, C#

I am trying to filter an imported part (single ipt) with several hundreds of surface bodies in it. (This file comes from a PDMS export towards step and the imported with the task scheduler.) There are about 300 little cubes (1cmx1cmx1cm) which I can easily identify by evaluating the edges – I want to delete those. I hoped for a small solution with the apprentice server, but now I am stuck with the final step:

            ApprenticeServerDocument oDoc = asc.Open(oldPartName);
            oDoc.ComponentDefinition.SurfaceBodies[0].Delete();

I though the SurfaceBody.Delete Method should make me happy – but I get the error “parameter is incorrect” (see screeny attached).

What am I doing wrong or do you have a workaround in mind?

Thanks for your support!

Kai

[Anonymous]

I thought I was one step further by trying to delete the Feature of the solid body,

but I get the same error for the following line

oDoc.ComponentDefinition.SurfaceBodies[0].CreatedByFeature.Delete(false, false, false);

[philippe.leefsma]

Hi Kay,

Two important remarks to keep in mind:

1/ All indices for collections in the Inventor API start from 1

2/ Apprentice doesn't support modifying the Inventor files, it can only modify iProperties

Regards,

Philippe.