Highlighting occurrences

[NachoShaw]

Hi

When creating a shrink wrap, there is a good highlighting method in that, when you mouse over a part before selecting, all occurrences also highlight. Also, all occurrences select when selecting any single occurrence

Is there a way to call that type of selection?

Thanks

[Sergio.D.Suárez]

Hi, do you mean something similar to what the ilogic assembly code below shows?

Dim oDoc As AssemblyDocument
oDoc = ThisDoc.Document
oCompDef = oDoc.ComponentDefinition

Dim oSet As HighlightSet
oSet = oDoc.CreateHighlightSet

While True
  Dim oComp As Object
    oComp = ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick(SelectionFilterEnum.kAssemblyOccurrenceFilter,"Select Component") 
    ' If nothing gets selected then we're done	
    If IsNothing(oComp) Then Exit While
    oSet.AddItem(oComp)
End While
oSet.Clear()

 regards

[Darkforce_the_ilogic_guy]

what does the code do ? It did not seens to do anything on my assambly ... thought it would select all or something like that

[Sergio.D.Suárez]

Actually does not do any action, just highlight the selection, in the following example add an action, and as you can see highlights the selection when returning the value, and when leaving with escape, leaves the selection highlight

Dim oDoc As AssemblyDocument
oDoc = ThisDoc.Document
oCompDef = oDoc.ComponentDefinition

Dim oSet As HighlightSet
oSet = oDoc.CreateHighlightSet

While True
  Dim oComp As Object
    oComp = ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick(SelectionFilterEnum.kAssemblyOccurrenceFilter,"Select Component") 
    ' If nothing gets selected then we're done	
    If IsNothing(oComp) Then Exit While
    oSet.AddItem(oComp)


	MessageBox.Show( "Component: " & oComp.name & "   | Volume: " & Round(oComp.MassProperties.Volume,1))


End While

oSet.Clear()

[NachoShaw]

Hi

this isnt what im looking to achieve. What im looking to do is 2 things

1. when the functions is running, highlight ALL assembly occurrences of the underlaying part. for example, if i have 45 x 1" ANSI Heavy bolts and i mouse over any one of the them, they all temporarily highlight until i mouse off.

2. if i select the bolt, all other occurrences of the bolt are selected also.

this is how the shrinkwrap works