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Interactive workfeature selection

mat_hijs — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:28:35 GMT

I'm trying to write a rule to make constraints by selecting 3 workfeatures in the first part, and then the 3 corresponding workfeatures in the second part. I'd like it to ask to select specific workfeatures, for example a messagebox or tooltip saying: "Select workfeature 1" and then "Select workfeature 2" and so on.

I've been looking in the API/Programming help, and I think I've almost found where I need to be, the interaction events, but I can't even get the sample programs to work for me. How should I deal with this?

Re: Interactive workfeature selection

WCrihfield — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:42:52 GMT

Are you talking about the Pick function?

Dim oWPlane As WorkPlane = ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick(SelectionFilterEnum.kWorkPlaneFilter, "Select a WorkPlane.")

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Re: Interactive workfeature selection

WCrihfield — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:50:18 GMT

Also, keep in mind that when working from an active assembly document and its components and sub components, you always have to create Proxy objects to represent them within the context of the assembly. So for each component WorkPlane you select, you will need to create a WorkPlaneProxy object for it before you can use it. The option to create Proxy objects is from the ComponentOccurrence object.

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Re: Interactive workfeature selection

mat_hijs — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 07:02:06 GMT

Exactly what I needed, thanks!