WorkPoint in arbitrary position in an assembly file?

[oransen]

Even manually I'm not able to add a WorkPoint in an arbitrary position in an Assembly file, and not even on a Sketchpoint. But I noticed that the assembly document has a list of WorkPoints so I tried programatically adding a work point, but though there's no error return values the point does not seem to get added.

Is this possible either manually or programatically?

Here is the code:

    CComPtr<WorkPoints> pWorkPointsList ;
    hRes = pAssemblyCompDef->get_WorkPoints (&pWorkPointsList) ;
    if (FAILED(hRes) || (pWorkPointsList == nullptr)) {
        ShowCOMError (hRes,L"could not get workpoint list") ;
        return ;
    }

    CComPtr<Point> pPt; // Create a 3d point
    hRes = theApp.GetTransGeomPtr()->CreatePoint(0.5,0.5,0.0,&pPt);
    if (FAILED(hRes)) {
        ShowCOMError (hRes,L" CreatePoint failed") ;
        return ;
    }

    hRes = pWorkPointsList->AddFixed (pPt,TRUE) ;
    if (FAILED(hRes)) {
        ShowCOMError (hRes,L"AddDFixed failed") ;
        return ;
    }
 

[wayne.brill · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Can you try changing the Construction argument for AddFixed() to  False?

When the construction argument is True the WorkPoint is getting created but you just don't see it in the UI.  Please let me know if your results are different.

Thanks,

Wayne

[oransen]

Thanks! That did it!