Specify part Specifically and suppress constraints

[MCADAEPFW]

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That's all fine and dandy but I want to specify a specific component in my assembly and then have it iterate through all the associated relationships and suppress them.   I can not find any documentation on how to set a specific component to do a 

   'For each joint attached to THIS SPECIFIC PART go through and suppress the joint if it is not already suppressed.' 

Also want to do the same thing with the constraints.   

i have found  code but nothing that says 'use this part' and suppress.  

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 JhoelForshav

 

in reply to: erikk6WMUN

yesterday

 

Hi @erikk6WMUN 

You want to pick the occurrence and all constraints/joints associated should be suppressed?

Dim oOcc As ComponentOccurrence = ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick(SelectionFilterEnum.kAssemblyOccurrenceFilter, "Pick component")
For Each oConstraint As AssemblyConstraint In oOcc.Constraints
oConstraint.Suppressed = True
Next
For Each oJoint As AssemblyJoint In oOcc.Joints
oJoint.Suppressed = True
Next

If this answer is not what you're looking for, start a new thread and we'll try to solve your problem there 

 This thread is already solved and your topic isn't really the same 

[#2]

That's all fine and dandy but I want to specify a specific component in my assembly and then have it iterate through all the associated relationships and suppress them.   I can not find any documentation on how to set a specific component to do a 

   'For each joint attached to THIS SPECIFIC PART go through and suppress the joint if it is not already suppressed.' 

Also want to do the same thing with the constraints.   

i have found  code but nothing that says 'use this part' and suppress.  

[JhoelForshav]

Hi @erikk6WMUN 

You want to pick the occurrence and all constraints/joints associated should be suppressed?

Dim oOcc As ComponentOccurrence = ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick(SelectionFilterEnum.kAssemblyOccurrenceFilter, "Pick component")
For Each oConstraint As AssemblyConstraint In oOcc.Constraints
oConstraint.Suppressed = True
Next
For Each oJoint As AssemblyJoint In oOcc.Joints
oJoint.Suppressed = True
Next

If this answer is not what you're looking for, start a new thread and we'll try to solve your problem there 

 This thread is already solved and your topic isn't really the same 

[JhoelForshav]

@MCADAEPFW 

I take it the code i posted there wasn't what you're looking for? Could you give an example as to why that is? In what way does the code not give the results you need? 🙂

EDIT: I see now that you posted an explaination in the other thread 🙂

[JhoelForshav · Accepted solution]

How about this?

Dim oAsm As AssemblyDocument = ThisDoc.Document
Dim oName As String = "NameOfOccurrence"
Dim oOcc As ComponentOccurrence = oAsm.ComponentDefinition.Occurrences.ItemByName(oName)
For Each oConstraint As AssemblyConstraint In oOcc.Constraints
oConstraint.Suppressed = True
Next
For Each oJoint As AssemblyJoint In oOcc.Joints
oJoint.Suppressed = True
Next

Just change "NameOfOccurrence" to whatever the name of your component is ex: "Part1:1"

[MCADAEPFW · Accepted solution]

Yes perfect that will work.   I still struggle with all the Dim this and that.  I never know when to use it and the API help file is not really helpful unless you have a better understanding of coding.  

What would be helpful is if explained what it is doing or a little incontext example of how.  I've looked at the sample codes but it seems that everything I want to customize never has a sample file that close.  I was going kind of down that same route but gave up because I kept getting an error.   

Thank you thank you thank you so very much!!!!   Going to add this to my Snippets now.   

[rogerJDLE5]

Hi,

This looks really neat and seems pretty much what I'm looking for, but is there some way of coding this so that it can be called as a custom function or subroutine with the name of a component or sub-assembly as the input argument?

Below is the code I am running currently. I would like to replace the constraint suppression code which is explicit for the existing constraints with a single function as above so that if a constraint name is changed or a constraint replaced the iLogic code does not need updating.

If TF_LENGTH_3 = 0 Then
	Component.IsActive("FLANGE_TOP_#3:1") = False
	Constraint.IsActive("Flush:FRONT_TF3") = False
	Constraint.IsActive("Mate:TF3_WEB") = False
	Constraint.IsActive("Mate:END_TF2_TF3") = False
	Constraint.IsActive("Mate:END_TF3_TF4") = False
	
ElseIf TF_LENGTH_3 > 0 And TF_LENGTH_4 = 0 Then
	Component.IsActive("FLANGE_TOP_#3:1") = True
	Constraint.IsActive("Flush:FRONT_TF3") = True
	Constraint.IsActive("Mate:TF3_WEB") = True
	Constraint.IsActive("Mate:END_TF2_TF3") = True
	Constraint.IsActive("Mate:END_TF3_TF4") = True
	
ElseIf TF_LENGTH_4 > 0 And TF_LENGTH_5 = 0 Then
	Component.IsActive("FLANGE_TOP_#3:1") = True
	Constraint.IsActive("Flush:FRONT_TF3") = True
	Constraint.IsActive("Mate:TF3_WEB") = True
	Constraint.IsActive("Mate:END_TF2_TF3") = True
	Constraint.IsActive("Mate:END_TF3_TF4") = True
	
ElseIf TF_LENGTH_5 > 0 Then
	Component.IsActive("FLANGE_TOP_#3:1") = True
	Constraint.IsActive("Flush:FRONT_TF3") = True
	Constraint.IsActive("Mate:TF3_WEB") = True
	Constraint.IsActive("Mate:END_TF2_TF3") = True
	Constraint.IsActive("Mate:END_TF3_TF4") = True
		
End If

Best regards.