Create View Representations on Component Occurrence

[David.Berken]

Hello, I am trying to create an iLogic code that can create an associative view representation in an assembly. Right now I am stuck on just getting the view representations created in each component of my assembly. I continue to get the error Public member 'RepresentationsManager' on type 'ComponentOccurence' not found. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dim oDoc As Document
Dim oCompDef As ComponentDefinition
oDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
oCompDef = oDoc.ComponentDefinition

For Each oOcc In oCompDef.Occurrences
	 If Component.IsActive(oOcc.Name)
		If oOcc.DefinitionDocumentType = DocumentTypeEnum.kPartDocumentObject

			Dim oviewrep As DesignViewRepresentation

			Try
				MsgBox("Got Here")
				oOcc.SetDesignViewRepresentation("Custom",, True)
			Catch
				MsgBox("Got Here")
				oviewrep = oOcc.RepresentationsManager.DesignViewRepresentations.Add("Custom",True)
				oviewrep.activate
			End Try
		End If
	End If
Next

iLogicVb.UpdateWhenDone = True

[WCrihfield · Accepted solution]

Hi @David.Berken.  The RepresentationsManager is a property of either the PartComponentDefinition or the AssemblyComponentDefinition objects.  So from the component's perspective this would be under the oOcc.Definition, but it's a bit tricky, because that returns a generic ComponentDefinition object which doesn't have the RepresentationsManager as one of its properties.  So you could check the Type of the oOcc.Definition using the TypeOf operator, then create a variable of the needed specific Type and set oOcc.Definition as its value.  Then you could access this properly, with support from the Intellisense type system (pop-up suggestions & info).

Here is some example iLogic code along the same lines as a pointer:

'Set or Create DesignViewRepresentations In Assembly Components
Dim oADoc As AssemblyDocument = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
oADef = oADoc.ComponentDefinition
For Each oOcc As ComponentOccurrence In oADef.Occurrences
	If Not oOcc.Suppressed Then
		If TypeOf oOcc.Definition Is PartComponentDefinition Then
			'If oOcc.IsAssociativeToDesignViewRepresentation Then
			'Dim oPDoc As PartDocument = oOcc.Definition.Document
			'oRepsMgr = oPDoc.ComponentDefinition.RepresentationsManager
			Dim oPDef As PartComponentDefinition = oOcc.Definition
			oDVRepName = "My DVRep"
			oDVReps = oPDef.RepresentationsManager.DesignViewRepresentations
			For Each oDVRep As DesignViewRepresentation In oDVReps
				If oDVRep.Name = oDVRepName Then
					'Found it'
					oOcc.SetDesignViewRepresentation(oDVRepName, , True)
				End If
			Next
		End If
	End If
Next

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[David.Berken]

Thank you! This got me close enough to do what I needed to do!