automaticly save an assembly macro

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:09:43 GMT

I believe this is a stupid question but I just got stuck with it. So please help 🙂

I have made a macro that asks for a location on the file server (=client name) and then the project name. It then automatic creates the correct folders, opens my custom assembly template and changes an ipart that is by default in it.

That's all great and can save us a ton of time, but the last step is to automatic save the assembly! I just can't get it working and can't find the correct code (programming help, this forum, Google, ...)

I have defined the target folder earlier and the file name of the assembly is identical to this folder. For example

target folder = O:\Projects\clientName\ClientProject1

file name = ClientProject1.iam

-> result: O:\Projects\clientName\ClientProject1\ClientProject1.iam

the code that I think should work looks like this:

Sub SaveAssembly()
    Dim oAssDoc As AssemblyDocument
    Set oAssDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
    oAssDoc.SaveAs ("O:\Projects\clientName\ClientProject1\ClientProject1.iam", False)
End Sub

But it doesn't work, I always get the error message "Compile error: Expected: ="
Whatever I do next I don't get the code to work

I feel stupid I can get the diffucult part working but that I'm stuck over something easy as an automatic save ...

thx for the help!

Re: automaticly save an assembly macro

jdkriek — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:54:42 GMT

You need to Call it 😉

Call oAssDoc.SaveAs()

Sub SaveAssembly()
    Dim oAssDoc As AssemblyDocument
    Set oAssDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
    Call oAssDoc.SaveAs ("O:\Projects\clientName\ClientProject1\ClientProject1.iam", False)
End Sub

Re: automaticly save an assembly macro

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:29:22 GMT

I knew I was forgetting something stupid 🙂

It works, thx!

Re: automaticly save an assembly macro

jdkriek — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:39:18 GMT

You're quite welcome.

Sometimes it's the simple things. Back in PHP I always forgot semicolons lol

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