Pick Function and Assembly Patterns

[Noah.ClarkX5FEF]

Hi there,

I'm running into a small problem with my ilogic rule where I have a variable to set to a component occurrence object using the kAssemblyOccurrenceFilter.  On individual occurrences it works fine but it seams to somehow switch to kAssemblyLeafOccurrenceFilter when trying to select a occurrence in an assembly pattern.   Unless I select the occurrence in the model tree it seems to only let me select the individual parts in the sub-assembly.

My questions being

1.  Why does it do that?

2.  How do I have it so it selects the assembly occurrence instead?

[Ralf_Krieg]

Hello

Why? Don't know. I would also expect to get the assembly, not the containing part.

You can try to check if the picked object is a ComponentOccurrenceProxy. If so, get the ContainingOccurrence object and check again if this is a ComponentOccurrenceProxy. Do this stepping up until the ContainingOccurence is a ComponentOccurrence. If the ComponentOccurrence.IsPatternElement=True then you should have found the assembly in the pattern.

[_dscholtes_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Noah.ClarkX5FEF 
I experienced the same thing when I was writing one of my VBA macros. Couldn't find anything about this specific behavior with patterned items.
I ended up creating a class that handles the selection process which actually uses the kAssemblyLeafOccurrenceFilter as filter setting and 'travels up' to find the highest sub-assembly level containing the selected component occurrence. 

    'Check if the selected occurrence is in a sub assembly
    If oOcc.OccurrencePath.Count > 1 Then
        
        'Get the highest sub assembly containing it
        Do Until oOcc.OccurrencePath.Count = 1
            Set oOcc = oOcc.ContainingOccurrence
        Loop
    End If