topic Re: Replacing PartsList Reference with ModelState? in Inventor Programming Forum

Replacing PartsList Reference with ModelState?

c_hoppen — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:23:17 GMT

Hello,

I need to replace a PartsList reference with a specific ModelState. Ih could use FileDescriptor.ReplaceReference but this only allows me to give a new file name. So I tried this:

Dim partslist As PartsList = doc.SelectSet.Item(1) Dim refDoc As AssemblyDocument = partslist.ReferencedDocumentDescriptor.ReferencedDocument Dim mss As ModelStates = refDoc.ComponentDefinition.ModelStates Dim ms As ModelState = mss.Item("xxx") ms.Activate ' throws an exception

(Assumes that xxx exists. The active ModelState is primary).

Any chance to do this?

Best

Christoph

Re: Replacing PartsList Reference with ModelState?

WCrihfield — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:03:32 GMT

Hi @c_hoppen. When you created / placed the PartsList initially, did you choose a drawing view to associate it with, or did you choose a file from the file browser directly? If you choose a view, you could try changing the ModelState that the source view is referencing, and see if that also effects the PartsList that is based on that view. But I am not sure if that connection is maintained after the creation of the PartsList, because there does not seem to be any exposed method or property of the PartsList for getting or setting a DrawingView directly. If that does not work, then you may just need to delete then create a new PartsList to replace it. In a quick test of a new drawing with a single sheet, and single view in it of an assembly with multiple ModelStates, and a PartsList based on that view...if I manually change which ModelState that view is set to, it shows a small interactive dialog letting me know about the change, and asking me if would like to update all PartsLists in this document to use one or the other ModelState instead. That could be seen as a connection between the view and the PartsList, but that one view in that situation was the only reference to the model document, so it's difficult to judge. Not sure how we could avoid, or react to that question if attempting to change the ModelState of the view by code though. It may simply not be shown, and use a default response, or it may throw an error, because we need to answer the question that there is no way to do by code. Not sure.

Edit: Here is the link to the blue link shown at the bottom of that dialog image above, just for reference:

https://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-7070AD70-276B-42C7-A163-46B38B9C2465

Re: Replacing PartsList Reference with ModelState?

c_hoppen — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:26:13 GMT

Hi,

as you told, changing a views' model state will affect a linked parts list.

Unfortunuatelly, my customer linked the parts lists to files instead to a view.

After selecting a file you can select the Model State:

My idea was to get the associated document (ReferencedDocument) and set the desired model state to active - which fails.

Probably he has to delete the tables and create them again.

Best

Christoph

Re: Replacing PartsList Reference with ModelState?

WCrihfield — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:41:18 GMT

That would be my guess too. The PartsList.ReferencedDocumentDescriptor property returns a DocumentDescriptor object, then that DocumentDescriptor object has a property named ReferencedModelState, but that is a ReadOnly property with a value being a variation of the ModelStateTypeEnum, so no luck there. It would be nice if they were able to make that property (or another similar one) Read/Write, with a String type value (name of the ModelState).

Edit: The DocumentDescriptor's FullDocumentName property would have been another opportunity to change which ModelState it is pointing to, but nope, that had to be ReadOnly also. The FullDocumentName would normally contain the name of the ModelState after its FullFileName portion, within "<" & ">" brackets.

Re: Replacing PartsList Reference with ModelState?

Frederick_Law — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 21:31:46 GMT

The link is maintained.

I save as drawing and change ModelState in view to make drawings for each ModelState.

I also use this command:

Work with or without ModelState.

Maybe look for referenced documents in Drawing Doc.

Don't know if it can be found in Sheet and View.

Re: Replacing PartsList Reference with ModelState?

c_hoppen — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:12:06 GMT

@Frederick_Law schrieb:
The link is maintained.
I save as drawing and change ModelState in view to make drawings for each ModelState.
I also use this command:
Work with or without ModelState.
Maybe look for referenced documents in Drawing Doc.
Don't know if it can be found in Sheet and View.

I can replace references by filename, but not filename + Model State. That's what I asked.

Re: Replacing PartsList Reference with ModelState?

Frederick_Law — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:57:11 GMT

Yes, you can.

Select the file with ModelState and Click Option:

But I think that's may not the problem you have.

Re: Replacing PartsList Reference with ModelState?

c_hoppen — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 14:06:39 GMT

Yes - you can select filename and model state, but only by UI! I want do it by API.
I know FileDescriptor.ReplaceReference, but this method only takes the FullFileName.