How to select a hole feature of a part in an assembly?

[liminma8458]

Hi,

I am doing a code which needs to select a hole feature of a part in assembly mode. How to do it through API?

I try <ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick(kAssemblyFeatureFilter, "Pick a feature in Assembly")>, and <ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick(kAllCircularEntities, "Pick CircularEntities in Assembly")>. They can NOT pick a hole feature of a part in assembly.

I also try <oCtrlDef = ThisApplication.CommandManager.ControlDefinitions.Item("AppFeaturePriorityWrapperCmd")>. It works. But I don't know how to add a tool-tip (such as "please select a hole") with selecting arrow while doing the pick. So how to add a tool-tip for this way?

Thank you very much in advance

Limin

[JhoelForshav · Accepted solution]

Just tried this and it seemed to work 🙂

Dim doc As Document
    doc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument

    ' Have an object selected.
    Dim selection As Object
    selection = ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick( _
                                    SelectionFilterEnum.kPartFeatureFilter, _
                                    "Select a feature.") 
	MsgBox(selection.Name)

The code lets you pick a feature in a part from the containing assembly and writes the features name in a messagebox

Please accept as solution if you're happy with the reply 🙂

[liminma8458]

It works perfectly! I have been thinking kPartFeatureFilter only works with part mode. Thank you very much!