Get the name of the Component that owns the selected face, programatically.

[ebunn3]

Hi,

See screen shot below.  I am selecting a face and I want to get the name of the component that owns the face.  My problem is that the face may be owned by a component that is buried in the assembly, in this case it is in a component that is within a linked component.  But anything goes depending on who built the assembly.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Eric

[BrianEkins · Accepted solution]

I believe the code below will do it.

if selectedFace.nativeObject:
    # The face exists in a leaf part of an assembly.
    comp = selectedFace.nativeObject.body.parentComponent
else:
    # The faces exists in the root component.
    comp = selectedFace.body.parentComponent

[ebunn3]

Brian

This worked out very well thank you.  Another question.  Once I have the component that owns the face is there a way to work upwards to find the top level component that is not the root component.   Just in case the component is within another higher level component.  

Eric

[BrianEkins · Accepted solution]

The assemblyContext property of the face returns its parent Occurrence.  Calling the assemblyContext property on the returned Occurrence will return its parent occurrence. When the assemblyContext property returns null, you'll know you've reached the root component.

[ebunn3]

Thank you again!