Colour Face Of A-Side In Specific ViewRep C#

[bruce.blundell]

Hi All,

I am looking to Set the color of the A-Side face to a specific color

but only do it in a specific view rep

my code is in C# but happy to translate from Vb 

I am able to set the view rep no problem

 public void PrtCreateVRep(string nViewRep)
        {
            Connect(out Inventor.Application m_InvApp, out bool InvActive);

            TestPart(out bool oPartTest);
            if (oPartTest == true)
            {

                //Active Part Document
                PartDocument oPartDoc = (PartDocument)m_InvApp.ActiveDocument;

                //Define Component definition
                PartComponentDefinition oCompDef = oPartDoc.ComponentDefinition;

                //get Manager of Representations
                RepresentationsManager dViewRepMgr = oCompDef.RepresentationsManager;

                //get active Representation view
                DesignViewRepresentation dViewRep = dViewRepMgr.ActiveDesignViewRepresentation;

                DesignViewRepresentations oDesignViewReps = oCompDef.RepresentationsManager.DesignViewRepresentations;

                //DesignViewRepresentation oDesignViewRep = default(DesignViewRepresentation);
                int dViewRepCounts = oDesignViewReps.Count;

                if (nViewRep != "")
                {
                    try
                    {
                        oDesignViewReps[nViewRep].Activate();
                        //Inventor Status Bar Feedback
                        m_InvApp.StatusBarText = "View Representation: " + "'" + nViewRep + "'" + " Exists. " + "'" + nViewRep + "'" + " View Representation Now Activaded.";
                    }
                    catch
                    {
                        DesignViewRepresentation oDesignViewRep = default(DesignViewRepresentation);
                        oDesignViewRep = oDesignViewReps.Add(nViewRep);

                        oDesignViewReps[nViewRep].Activate();

                        //Inventor Status Bar Feedback
                        m_InvApp.StatusBarText = "View Representation: " + "'" + nViewRep + "'" + " Created. " + "'" + nViewRep + "'" + " View Representation Now Activaded.";

                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    MessageBox.Show("No View Rep Name Selected!", "UAPTools");

                }

            }

            else
            {
                MessageBox.Show("Please Activate a Valid Part Document", "UAPTools");
            }


        }

Then set the face to the Color

 public void SetA_SideColour(string oColour)
        {

            Connect(out Inventor.Application m_InvApp);

            InvPart constrClass = new InvPart();
            constrClass.TestPart(out bool oPartTest);

            if (oPartTest == true)
            {

                //Active Part Document
                PartDocument oPartDoc = (PartDocument)m_InvApp.ActiveDocument;

                //Define Component definition
                //PartComponentDefinition oCompDef = oPartDoc.ComponentDefinition;

                SMCheck(out bool oSMTest);

                if (oSMTest == true)
                {

                    SheetMetalComponentDefinition oSMCompDef = (SheetMetalComponentDefinition)oPartDoc.ComponentDefinition;

                    if (oSMCompDef.ASideFaceStatus == ASideFaceStatusEnum.kASideUpToDate)
                    {

                        ASideDefinition oAsideDef = oSMCompDef.ASideDefinitions[1];

                        Face oFace = oAsideDef.Faces[1];

                        //Face oFace = oAside.Faces[1];

                        if (oColour != "")
                        {
                            if (oColour == "As Feature")
                            {
                                try
                                {
                                    //Set Enum
                                    StyleSourceTypeEnum oStyle = StyleSourceTypeEnum.kFeatureRenderStyle;

                                    //Set Render Style of faces
                                    oFace.SetRenderStyle(oStyle);

                                }
                                catch
                                {
                                    //Inventor Status Bar Feedback
                                    m_InvApp.StatusBarText = "RenderStyle/Appearance : " + "' " + oColour + " '" + " Could Not Be activated";
                                }
                            }
                            else
                            {

                                try
                                {
                                    RenderStyle oRenderStyle = oPartDoc.RenderStyles[oColour];

                                    //Set Enum
                                    StyleSourceTypeEnum oStyle = StyleSourceTypeEnum.kOverrideRenderStyle;

                                    //Set Render Style of faces
                                    oFace.SetRenderStyle(oStyle, oRenderStyle);

                                }
                                catch
                                {
                                    //Inventor Status Bar Feedback
                                    m_InvApp.StatusBarText = "RenderStyle/Appearance : " + "' " + oColour + " '" + " Could Not Be activated";
                                }
                            }

                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {

                    }

                    m_InvApp.ActiveView.Update();

                }
            }


        }

But This overrides the color in all view reps

Any thoughts?

[bruce.blundell]

@NachoShaw  any ideas?

[JMGunnar]

Designviews in Parts not support different Face colour 

Inventor Ideas

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/idb-p/v1232

[NachoShaw]

We could add a condition based on a view rep and call the function on a documentEvent. The color, face name & viewrep name could be saved as attributes along with the face name

Change ViewRep

initiate DocumentEvent

check thata ViewRep has changed and get its name

If ViewRep Name = Attribute ViewRep name

Select face by Attribute name

assign Attribute color to it

you can save attributes to a face so each face can hold its own attribute colors and then be collected when the face is selected