topic Re: Macro delete project geometry in sketch in Inventor Programming Forum

Macro delete project geometry in sketch

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:05:30 GMT

Hello.

I wish to delete all project geometry in the active drawingsketch with 1 click

But unsure how to get to these constraints.

Are these geometricConstraints?

What I have now doesnt work:

            
            Select Case ThisDoc.Document.DocumentType
                Case 12292:
                Case Else: MsgBox("Current Document not a drawing document")
                             Exit Sub
            End Select
            
            If Not TypeOf ThisApplication.ActiveEditObject Is Sketch Then
                MsgBox("Please activate a sketch")
                Exit Sub
            End If
                    
            Dim oDoc As DrawingDocument = ThisDoc.Document
            Dim oSketch As Inventor.DrawingSketch = ThisApplication.ActiveEditObject
            
             Dim oGeos As GeometricConstraints = OSketch.GeometricConstraints
             Dim oGeo As GeometricConstraint
             For Each oGeo In oGeos
                 oGeo.delete
            Next

What am I doing wrong?

Thx in advance,

Arnold

Re: Macro delete project geometry in sketch

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:58:49 GMT

you can check if SketchEntity.ReferencedEntity is nothing to see if its referenced geometry, but I'm fairly certian that you cannot delete referenced geometry with SketchEntity.Delete() method.

Re: Macro delete project geometry in sketch

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 08:25:03 GMT

Yes, I have tried that method, but I also can't find how to delete the projected geometry constraints

Re: Macro delete project geometry in sketch

philippe.leefsma — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:47:26 GMT

Hi Arnold,

There is no constraints for projected geometry. So as our friend Robert mentioned, iterate through the sketch entities to find the ones that have a ReferencedEntiy, which mean they are projected. Then simply call Delete on those sketch entities.

Regards,

Philippe.

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Re: Macro delete project geometry in sketch

rohitchavan123 — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 11:45:00 GMT

Hi Philippe,

Simply calling delete on sketch entity is giving exception in API.
I tried BreakLink() on sketch also but it also give exception.

Looks like deleting Projected Loop is tricky one.

Regards,
Rohit