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API Reference to Highlight for Weld Line/Weld and Meld Line

API Reference to Highlight for Weld Line/Weld and Meld Line

I would like to be able to set the Highlight property for weld line/weld and meld line plots using a script.

 

I understand that you can just 'set plot settings as default' for this plot.  But, there are several times I have to go back and set this property again:

 

-Bug in 2016 (though fixed in 2017) where if you change mesh display it automatically sets the highlight dataset back to "Weld and Meld Lines".

-Occasionally we may want to see the angle of the weld line so we toggle between temperature and default dataset.

-Some colleagues may not have have changed their defaults.  When automatically generating the reports this plot may not be set properly.

-If for some reason I have to go back and create a weld and meld line plot I have to also set the dataset to temperature.

 

I am most concerned with this during automatic report generation.  If the analysis was run/plot was created in 2016 then the bug may have reset the dataset.  Or one of the other situations may have occurred.  In either case, it would be nice to be able to add this to my code like any other property.

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Anonymous
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I noticed that something was added to the API for SetHighlightData.  I'm not sure if it was intended to be what my request was, but I copied the script in the example and it does absolutely nothing but put a random line out in space.

 

Is there any feedback if what I'm requesting is possible yet?  Below is from the API reference.  Under that is what I originally intended.

 

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