Getting an occurrence without traversing

[NachoShaw]

Hey

im doing a lot of assembly work and more than 50% of the operation time is consumed by traversing the assembly for documents. Is there a good to get an occurrence or document definition without needing to to the loop if i had say, a filepath, display name or partial name?

I have tried the ComponentEnumerator but that seems to the take the same amount of time as a loop. I thought i could use ItemByName but that requires the Application documents not the assembly document and the file needs to be open.

I was hoping that the enumerator would be more of a lookup and be faster unless im using it wrong..

Dim Doc as string = "C;\MyFile.ipt"
Dim oAssyDoc As AssemblyDocument = Form1.G._Invapp.ActiveDocument
Dim oCompOccEnum As ComponentOccurrencesEnumerator = oAssyDoc.ComponentDefinition.Occurrences.AllReferencedOccurrences(oDoc.ComponentDefinition)
For Each oCompOcc As ComponentOccurrence In oCompOccEnum
   If oCompOcc.Definition.Document.FullFileName = Doc Then
      oC2 = oCompOcc
      Exit For
    End If
Next

Looking for the most efficient way to enumerate an assembly to find a component without it needing to be open. 

thanks

[J-Camper]

I believe "ItemByName" Property uses DisplayName and can be accessed from AssemblyDocument:

Dim aCD As AssemblyComponentDefinition

aCD.Occurrences.ItemByName("Display Name")

I'm not sure what you mean by: "[...] and the file needs to be open" You have the Assembly as ActiveDocument in your code, so it is open right?

Testing Sample:

Dim aCD As AssemblyComponentDefinition = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.ComponentDefinition

Dim selecting As ComponentOccurrence = aCD.Occurrences.ItemByName("select") 'Display Name

Dim selectThis As HighlightSet = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.CreateHighlightSet
			
selectThis.AddItem(selecting)

MessageBox.Show("Look At Highlighted Component", "Selection")

AllReferencedOccurrences Is going to give you a group of occurrences all using the same document [multiple instances of a document]

Let me know if this isn't working for you.

[NachoShaw]

Hi

Thanks for the reply. I read that ItemByName required the file you wanted to find to be already open in order to find it. I could see why when the Component collection was the application collection..

i must have missed this 🙂

much appreciated