Unable to cast COM object to System.String (iLogic)

[jdkriek]

What I'm trying to do is detect if a Sweep exists - any sweep, not just a specific name (that part works) and then run an iLogic rule if it does. But when I convert to a string to do Feature.IsActive(), then it gives me a "Unable to cast COM object" error. 

'Ref the part
Dim oDoc As Inventor.Document
    oDoc = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
    Dim oDef As PartComponentDefinition

'Find the sweep, reguardless of name, and ref it
Dim oSweep As SweepFeature
    oSweep = oDef.Features.SweepFeatures.Item(1)

'This line is throwing the error, because it doesn't like being a string	
If Feature.IsActive(oSweep) Then	
    iLogicVb.RunRule("CalcSweep")
Else 
    'Do something
End If

Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to class type 'System.String'. Instances of types that represent COM components cannot be cast to types that do not represent COM components; however they can be cast to interfaces as long as the underlying COM component supports QueryInterface calls for the IID of the interface.

How can I make this work?

[Mike.Wohletz · Accepted solution]

try this out. 

    'Ref the part
        Dim oDoc As Inventor.PartDocument = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
        Dim oDef As PartComponentDefinition = oDoc.ComponentDefinition
        'Find the sweep, reguardless of name, and ref it
        Dim oSweep As SweepFeature = oDef.Features.SweepFeatures.Item(1)
        
        If Feature.IsActive( oSweep.Name) Then
            iLogicVb.RunRule("CalcSweep")
            Else
            'Do something
        End If

[jdkriek]

Thanks Mike! That works perfect.

Makes sense as well, now that I can see the flow.

[Anonymous]

I'm getting the same error you are except I am trying to convert the layer and style of a dimension.... Any ideas??

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ActiveSheet = ThisDrawing.Sheet("Sheet:1")

'References this document
Dim oDrawDoc As DrawingDocument
oDrawDoc = ThisDoc.Document

'References this drawing sheet
Dim oSheet As Sheet
oSheet = oDrawDoc.ActiveSheet

Dim oDim as DrawingDimension
Dim oDimStyle As DrawingStylesManager = oDrawDoc.StylesManager
For Each oDim In oSheet.DrawingDimensions
    If oDim.AttributeSets.Nameisused("iLogic_Created") = True Then
    oDim.Layer = ThisDrawing.Document.StylesManager.Layers("Customer")
    End If
    
Dim oStylesMgr As DrawingStylesManager = oDrawDoc.StylesManager
    
If oDim.Layer = "Customer" Then
oDimStyle = ThisDrawing.Document.StylesManager.DimensionStyles.Item("KG-in")
    
End If

Next

Dim ODDoc as Inventor.Document
ODDoc=ThisApplication.ActiveDocument

ODDoc.AttributeManager.PurgeAttributeSets