RotateSketchObjects not working with INV2023?

[h.schkorwaga]

Hello together,

since update to latest 2023.2 from 2021 the API method RotateSketchObjects from sketch object does nothing.

The following code wasn't altered for 2 years now and doesn't rotate the textbox anymore.

double dY = Endpoint.Y - Startpoint.Y;
double slope = dY / dX;
double TextboxAlignAngle = dX != 0 ? Math.Atan(slope) : Converter.rad_grd(false) * 90;


ObjectCollection objectCollection = GD.InvAPP.TransientObjects.CreateObjectCollection();
objectCollection.Add(textBoxBend);
sketch.RotateSketchObjects(objectCollection, textBoxBend.Origin, TextboxAlignAngle);

since the preferred approach ...

// Exception  for angles other than 90 and 180°
// textBoxBend.Rotation = TextboxAlignAngle;

... will throw an exception for angles except 0,90,270,360

The above was the way it worked.

Is there another way to rotate textboxes in 2023 API?

Thank you in advance!

BR

[h.schkorwaga]

Really no one affected?

[h.schkorwaga]

No?

[h.schkorwaga]

😞

[florian_wenzel]

Hi,

what is in your ObjColl ?

i do something like this:

First i show the Boudaries fromTextBox

  Dim oTextBox As TextBox = oSketchTextBox.TextBoxes.AddFitted(oText_Point, oStringTextBox)
            oTextBox.ShowBoundaries = True

Next, then Get each SketchLine from BoundariesTextBox

      Dim oSketchLine As SketchLine
        Dim oObjColl As ObjectCollection = oTO.CreateObjectCollection
        For i = 1 To oSketch.SketchLines.Count

            oSketchLine = oSketch.SketchLines.Item(1)
            oObjColl.Add(oSketchLine)

        Next

Next,  i Rotate the ObjColl

    oSketch.RotateSketchObjects(oObjColl, oPoint, oAngle_Corection)

In this Case is VB.NET

But i want to say, that i Rotate the Boudaries of TextBox, not only the TextBox

[h.schkorwaga]

Hi Florian,

thank for this good hint - but it unfortunately doesn't work for me.

ShowBoundaries is true (since years 🙂 )

With c# I did this now:

objectCollection.Add(textBoxBend);
foreach (SketchEntity item in textBoxBend.BoundaryGeometry)
{
    objectCollection.Add((SketchLine)item);
}

As in the sketch are more than one TextBoxes and other SketchLines I had a look in the API-Help. There I found the BoundaryGeometry which should return me the four border sketchlines of the textbox. The cast to SketchLine was my last hope, and shouldn't be necessary I guess.

May you could make a fast try if this works for you? If not then I suppose API is buggy here and I have to find another way to get this four SketchLines.

Thank you in advance!

[florian_wenzel]

hi,

small change

Take only the First (1)  SketchLine from TextBox BoundaryGeometry.    - Not each

Next, take a MidPoint of this Line.

And Rotate this through this Point

I Have Still  Inventor 2022, too lazy.

[florian_wenzel]

Hi,

C# Code:

it Works with Inventor 2023 latest Updates. 

Update: With SketchLines only from TextBox

[h.schkorwaga · Accepted solution]

Hi again,

thank you for your efforts. My whole code was not so far away from yours. Despite I tried to take yours which led me to the same result. BUT was I just saw when swithing to Flatpattern in inventor was that the boundary was very small after rotating the textbox. When doing a resize manually with the mouse the text flips and is displayed with 90deg (see video attached).

Conclusion:

My code that worked for years worked the whole time (no need to rotate a boundary sketchline just the textbox itself) - BUT the behaviour of the boundary (or textbox) changed. I just haven't recognized this circumstance.

So, after rotating I adjusted the height of the textbox (simply double the fontsize)

textBoxBend.Height = fontsize*2;

This worked for me now!

Thank you very much!

Hel