I need an External Rule to recursively change select part colors in an assembly
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The Inventor API is incredible, but its flexibility also makes it difficult for me to learn. After hours of working on this problem, I am crying for HELP! 🙂
I need an External Rule to recursively change select part colors in an assembly.
I have large assemblies with numerous sub-assemblies, three or four levels deep. The parts in the various assemblies are various colors and I want to be able to change those various colors (on the part level) with an external rule based on the individual part's starting color.
For instance, I may want to change the red parts to blue, but the green ones to yellow.
That means I need code that drills down to each part in each assembly, then assigns a new part color based on that part's current color.
This borrowed code more or less does what I want to do, but with the Material property instead of color:
Public Sub ChangeAllPartMaterial()
' Get the active assembly document.
Dim oAsmDoc As AssemblyDocument
oAsmDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
' Get the material to assign to all of the parts.
Dim strMaterialName As String
Dim oMaterial As Material
On Error Resume Next
oMaterial = oAsmDoc.Materials.Item(strMaterialName)
On Error Goto 0
' Iterate through all of the documents refrenced by the assembly.
Dim oDoc As Document
For Each oDoc In oAsmDoc.AllReferencedDocuments
' Check to see if this is a part.
If oDoc.DocumentType = kPartDocumentObject Then
Dim oPartDoc As PartDocument
oPartDoc = oDoc
' Set the material.
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''''' Here I would like to assign the color, instead of the material ''''
''''' The new color would be based on what the old color was. ''''
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strMaterialName = "Gold"
oPartDoc.ComponentDefinition.Material = oMaterial
End If
Next
End Sub
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
- Ron