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how to know if a view is baseview with vb.net?

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Message 1 of 7
shirazbj
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how to know if a view is baseview with vb.net?

Hi,

 

While loop through all Views in a sheet, I can use oView.ScaleFromBase to know if the scale of the view is changed from Base-View. Like this:

 

  For Each oView In oViews
                If oView.ScaleFromBase = False Then
'This view's scale is different from that of the Base-View

 But I can't tell in this way if it is a Base-View or views with different view scale.

 

There is a oView.ViewType,  I tried this

Dim mytype As String
mytype = oView.ViewType

 

for Base-View, mytype=10501

for other-view with different scale, mytype=10504

 

Is there other property I could use? Can't work out how to get the View Type Name.

 

Thanks for help.

 

Regards,

 

Peter

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Message 2 of 7
Vladimir.Ananyev
in reply to: shirazbj

You may check oView.ParentView property.

For base view it returns Nothing.


Vladimir Ananyev
Developer Technical Services
Autodesk Developer Network

Message 3 of 7
shirazbj
in reply to: Vladimir.Ananyev

Hi Vladimir,

 

I tried this, but both baseview and view whose scale if different from baseview return a Nothing.

 

Regards,

 

Peter

 

            Dim myView As DrawingView

            For Each oView In oViews
                If oView.ScaleFromBase = False Then

                    myView = oView.ParentView

                    If myView Is Nothing Then
                        MsgBox("nothing")
                    Else
                        MsgBox("something")
                    end if
                 end if
             next  

 

Message 4 of 7
YuhanZhang
in reply to: shirazbj

Can you attach the data that you see the problem? Or double check the drawing view which has different scale from its parent view does have a parent view or not?



If this solves the problem please click ACCEPT SOLUTION so other people can find it easily.



Rocky Zhang
Inventor API PD
Manufacturing Solutions
Autodesk, Inc.

Message 5 of 7
Robert..F
in reply to: shirazbj

You can check this way:

 

For each oView in oViews
     If oView.ViewType = Inventor.DrawingViewTypeEnum.kStandardDrawingViewType Then
          Debug.Print("This is a base view")
     Else
          Debug.Print("This is not a base view")
     End If
Next

 Or you can check the oView.Aligned property but this will also return false if the alignment has been broken from the base view.

Message 6 of 7
shirazbj
in reply to: YuhanZhang

Hi Rocky,

 

I just made a cube and generated a base view, a top view,a right view and an iso view. Then I change the view scale of the iso view.

 

Then I want the code to tell me which one's scale is changed and it is not a base view.

 

Peter

Message 7 of 7
shirazbj
in reply to: Robert..F

Hi Robert,

 

It's works for me. thank you very much.

 

Regards,

 

Peter

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