Can weld symbols be selected and deleted?

[mslosar]

I've read here they're not enabled in the API, but i'm hoping that means their internals and controlling them not so much simply selecting and moving or deleting.

Just looking for a fairly definitive answer to pass along to the powers that be here.

Thanks

[philippe.leefsma]

The welding symbols are not exposed to the API, which means you have no control over them unfortunately.

All you can do is to simulate user inputs by selecting the symbol node in the browser with BrowserNode.DoSelect and invoke the context menu commands edit or delete, which internal names are:

"EditWeldingSymbolCtxCmd"

"AppDeleteCmd"

You can execute a command using:

ThisApplication.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions.item("Cmd_InternalName").Execute

Here is an example of selecting nodes using the API:

http://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2012/09/parse-browsernodes-for-a-specified-node-and-perf...

Regards,

Philippe.

[mslosar]

Thank you, that's pretty much what I needed to know.

I'll be getting into that blog article later today!

Mike

[mslosar]

Reading that blog it seems to me that you'd have to somehow go to each view on a sheet and run the equivalent of TestSelectNode() on it. Problem then seems to be that there's a command for invoking the weld symbol editor and one for AppDelete which i'm not overly sure what that equates to. Regardless, it doesnt' seem to be delete weld symbol.

Doesn't seem to be a method to select weld symbol objects, although you can do that with filters inside inventor itself.

IF three's not a way to use this to find all the weld symbols on a sheet and delete them, it's not going to help.

Then again, maybe i'm missing somethin...