Creating a Detail View in drawing with iLogic

[Daan_M]

Hi,

As the title suggests, im trying to make iLogic create a Detail View, like so (done manually with UI);

I have the following code:

	Dim oPointDetail As Point2d
    oPointDetail = oView2.Center
    oPointDetail.X = oPointDetail.X - 0.5 * oView2.Width
    
    Dim oCurveSeg As DrawingCurveSegment
    oCurveSeg = ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick(SelectionFilterEnum.kDrawingCurveSegmentFilter, "Pick")
    Dim oCenterPoint As Point2d
    oCenterPoint = oCurveSeg.StartPoint

   
    Dim oDetailView As DetailDrawingView
    oDetailView = oSheet.DrawingViews.AddDetailView(oView2, oPointDetail, kFromBaseDrawingViewStyle, True, oCentrePoint, 1, , oView2.Scale * 3, True, "Detail A")

i ran into two problems:

1. i get an error with the cause 'wrong paramater', after looking at it i found out why;

The property 'StartPoint' returns nothing when the selected DrawingCurveSegment is circular (which mine is).

How can i work around this?

2. I use a manual picker to select a DrawingCurveSegment right now, which is fine for testing, but i want this automated. The segment i need a detail of is always the same, so the goal is to define that segment in my iLogic and assign it to oCurveseg

oCurveSeg = ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick(SelectionFilterEnum.kDrawingCurveSegmentFilter, "Pick")

Thanks in advance.

[JelteDeJong]

Have you seen this post? It shows how to create a drawing from scratch inclusive creating a detail view.

[Daan_M · Accepted solution]

Thanks I've managed to place a detailview in the position and scale i want;

Dim DCP As Point2d
	DCP =  oV2Cm4.Position
	
	Dim DPPV As Double = (oSheet.Height - 15) 
	Dim DPPH As Double = (oSheet.Width - 25) 
 
	Dim DPP As Point2d 
        DPP = ThisApplication.TransientGeometry.CreatePoint2d(DPPH, DPPV) 

  	Dim oPointDetail As Point2d
    oPointDetail = oView2.Center
    oPointDetail.X = oPointDetail.X - 0.5 * oView2.Width
    
    Dim oDetailView As DetailDrawingView
    oDetailView = oSheet.DrawingViews.AddDetailView(oView2, DPP, kFromBaseDrawingViewStyle, True, DCP, 0.5, , oView2.Scale * 2, True, "A")
	

I'm stuck at placing the annotations on the detail view. I'm not sure how i should create the centermarks, for centermarks on my regular views i use; 

Dim oCMs As Centermarks = oSheet.Centermarks
For Each oDView As DrawingView In oSheet.DrawingViews
	
'----- Assign WPs to CMs for View1 -----	
	If 		oDView.Name.Contains("View1") Then
			oView1 = oDView
			
			oV1Cm1 = oCMs.AddByWorkFeature(oWP1, oView1) 	'KFI5
			oV1Cm2 = oCMs.AddByWorkFeature(oWP5, oView1) 	'KFI6

According to the Inventor api object model a detail drawingview is different from a drawingview

i tried doing this but without succes;

	
Dim oScm1, oScm2 As Centermark

			oScm1 = oCMs.AddByWorkFeature(oWP23, oDetailView) 
			oScm2 = oCMs.AddByWorkFeature(oWP24, oDetailView) 	

error; 

System.ArgumentException: The parameter is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG))
at System.RuntimeType.ForwardCallToInvokeMember(String memberName, BindingFlags flags, Object target, Int32[] aWrapperTypes, MessageData& msgData)
at Inventor.Centermarks.AddByWorkFeature(Object WorkFeature, DrawingView DrawingView, Object CentermarkStyle, Object Layer)

at ThisRule.Main()
at Autodesk.iLogic.Exec.AppDomExec.ExecRuleInAssembly(Assembly assem)
at iLogic.RuleEvalContainer.ExecRuleEval(String execRule)

[ppolcynBNVFN]

For  anyone trying to recreate this now, there is an error in line 12 that was preventing this code from working for me: "centre" should be "center"