Change visibility of origin work plane at occurrence level
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there is a difference when handling "user defined workplanes" and "origin work planes". It is not possible to change the visibility of a origin work plane only in the occurrence level. Modifying the "origin work plane proxie" always changes the parent document. whereas a "user defined work plane" can be shown only in a occurrence level.
Please check the sample code below. Select a component (with a user defined work plane) in a assembly document. When the code is executed work planes (1-3) are shown in all occurrences, but the following work planes (4-...) are visible only in the selected occurrence, as desired.
Is there a work around to change the visibility of a origin work plane only at an occurrence?
I'm using Autodesk Inventor 2019
Best,
Matthias
Public Sub Test_WorkPlane_Visible()
Dim oApp As Inventor.Application
Set oApp = ThisApplication
If oApp.ActiveDocumentType <> kAssemblyDocumentObject Then Exit Sub
Dim oDoc As Inventor.AssemblyDocument
Set oDoc = oApp.ActiveDocument
Dim oOcc As Inventor.ComponentOccurrence
Dim Item As Object
For Each Item In oDoc.SelectSet
If Item.Type = Inventor.kComponentOccurrenceObject Then
Set oOcc = Item
Dim i As Long
For i = 1 To oOcc.Definition.WorkPlanes.Count
Dim oWorkPlane As Inventor.WorkPlane
Set oWorkPlane = oOcc.Definition.WorkPlanes.Item(i)
Dim oWorkPlaneProxie As Inventor.WorkPlaneProxy
Call oOcc.CreateGeometryProxy(oWorkPlane, oWorkPlaneProxie)
oWorkPlaneProxie.Visible = Not (oWorkPlaneProxie.Visible)
Next i
End If
Next
End Sub