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Accessing the points on the Hole/Thread Note leader

catot — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 22:25:34 GMT

Does anyone know if it's possible to get the Point2D coordinates of the Hole Note "Leader"? I'm using Inventor 2017, and from the API Help, it seems to me that this is not considered a leader? But I'm a beginner at this, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

What I want to do, is connect/attach to a "leader point" on the Hole/Thread Note (which is possible to do manually in the drawing). The closest point I'm able to access is the lower left corner of the Hole Note text (RangeBox.MinPoint).

Anyone got any suggestions?

Re: Accessing the points on the Hole/Thread Note leader

JaneFan — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 01:41:04 GMT

Hey @catot,

Please check whether the text origin of the hole node meets your requirement:

Dim oHoleNode As HoleThreadNote
Set oHoleNode = drwDoc.Sheets(1).DrawingNotes.HoleThreadNotes(1)

Debug.Print oHoleNode.Text.Text
Debug.Print oHoleNode.Text.Origin.X

Debug.Print oHoleNode.Text.Origin.Y

Re: Accessing the points on the Hole/Thread Note leader

catot — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:29:29 GMT

@JaneFan

Sorry, I forgot to mention, that was what I tried first.

Please see the picture below, that should explain a bit better. These points refer to the picture:

is the text origin, and not what I want. But maybe I'm missing something?
is what I currently can achieve (RangeBox.MinPoint)
is what I want to connect to.

Is this possible, or do I need to set new X and Y coordinates based on the Hole Note Style, starting from the point i already have to access this location?

Re: Accessing the points on the Hole/Thread Note leader

catot — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 21:48:47 GMT

I've tried some more, and have concluded that it would be acceptable to be able to connect my symbol to the the text origin on the Hole Note (no. 1), as long as its connected. Then It could just manually be moved to connect to point no. 3. But I'm stuck on how to make that happen.

I can insert my symbol at the location, but I can not make it connected to the point during insertion, so that it will follow the view when moved etc.

Btw, I want to insert the symbol without any leader.

I've studied the API help samples which shows how to do it with Geometry Intent etc., but I'm not able to make it work.

Any help/input is much appreciated.

Re: Accessing the points on the Hole/Thread Note leader

MechMachineMan — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 22:03:40 GMT

Why not just use a sketched symbol then, instead of going through the hassle of modifying a leader to get to the same end product?