topic Re: how to know if a view is baseview with vb.net? in Inventor Programming Forum

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

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:01:36 GMT

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

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

Vladimir.Ananyev — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:00:24 GMT

You may check oView.ParentView property.

For base view it returns Nothing.

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

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:47:22 GMT

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

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

YuhanZhang — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:48:41 GMT

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?

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

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:13:11 GMT

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.

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

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:44:08 GMT

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

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

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:45:24 GMT

Hi Robert,

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

Regards,

Peter