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Copying views into another sheet (iLogic or API )

ulasdeniz — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 15:04:02 GMT

Suppoese I have series of catalogue drawings of AssemblyA.dwg and AssemblyB. dwg that are completed. (Each set contains a lot of version.)

And I need to create an Assembly drawings called AssemblyA-B.dwg which contains AssemblyA.dwg and AssemblyB. dwg as subassemblies. I need to create an automatik task to create the all of combination of the AssemblyA-B.dwgs without manually copying and pasting the views. The code will place (or change in prepared template ) the views of the AssemblyA.dwg and AssemblyB. dwg into AssemblyA-B.dwg

Do you have a solution for ilogic or API? (I logic preferred)

Re: Copying views into another sheet (iLogic or API )

Balaji_Ram — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 08:50:57 GMT

Hi Ulas,

Here is an iLogic code to copy view from one sheet to a sheet in another drawing.

You may need to tweak the view index and the file path to suit your needs.

Dim oSrcDwg As DrawingDocument
oSrcDwg = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument

Dim oDestDwg As DrawingDocument
oDestDwg = ThisApplication.Documents.Open("D:\Temp\Inventor\MyProj\Axle\Test.dwg")
    
Dim oView As DrawingView
If oSrcDwg.ActiveSheet.DrawingViews.Count < 1 Then
    MsgBox ("No views found in the source drawing !")
    Return
End If

oView = oSrcDwg.ActiveSheet.DrawingViews(1)

Dim oSheet As Sheet
For Each oSheet In oDestDwg.Sheets
    oSheet.Activate
    Call oView.CopyTo(oSheet)
    Exit For
Next

Call oDestDwg.Save
Call oDestDwg.Close(False)

Regards,

Balaji

Re: Copying views into another sheet (iLogic or API )

Jef_E — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:13:41 GMT

@Balaji_Ram Thanks for this example, but I would like to go a step further. How should can we handle multiple views that depend on each other?

Example:

oSrcDwg.ActiveSheet.DrawingViews(1) = base view

oSrcDwg.ActiveSheet.DrawingViews(2) = Section from base view

I would like to copy the section + the base view to my new dwg. How should I handle this?

Re: Copying views into another sheet (iLogic or API )

MechMachineMan — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 20:13:58 GMT

Either select your base view first or use command manager

Re: Copying views into another sheet (iLogic or API )

DRoam — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 13:10:03 GMT

@Jef_E wrote:

@Balaji_Ram Thanks for this example, but I would like to go a step further. How should can we handle multiple views that depend on each other?

I would like to be able to do this, too. The copy/paste via Command Manager isn't a good solution. It's not pure-API, it's clunky, and it results in duplicates of the Views (with new Labels) rather than moving the Views themselves.

So I created an idea for this here: iLogic/API: Move or Copy multiple Drawing Views to different sheet at once.

Please consider giving it a vote.