Hi,
I would like to know if its possible to alter the sketch for a shaft opening via the API. I have the shaft element created and would like to draw X's as the opening symbol into it. Based on the aspect ratio of the opening this should be 1, 2, 3 ... X's.
Here is my code so far:
private static Result DrawX (List<XYZ> CoordList, Document uidoc, Opening o)
{
// Trying to draw the X`s into the shaft
if (CoordList.Count == 4)
{
double l1 = CoordList[1].Subtract(CoordList[0]).GetLength();
double l2 = CoordList[2].Subtract(CoordList[1]).GetLength();
double l3 = CoordList[3].Subtract(CoordList[2]).GetLength();
double l4 = CoordList[0].Subtract(CoordList[3]).GetLength();
double la = 0.0;
if (l1 > l3)
la = l1;
else
la = l3;
double lb = 0.0;
if (l2 > l4)
lb = l2;
else
lb = l4;
double ratio = la / lb;
int NumberXa = 1;
int NumberXb = 1;
if (ratio > 1.0)
{
NumberXa = (int)Math.Round(ratio, 0);
}
else
{
NumberXb = (int)Math.Round(1.0 / ratio, 0);
}
SymbolicCurveArray Xes = new SymbolicCurveArray();
double eta, xi, N1, N2, N3, N4;
XYZ P1, P2, P3, P4;
SketchPlane sk = SketchPlane.Create(uidoc, new Plane(new XYZ(1, 1, 0), new XYZ(0, 0, 0)));
for (int i = 0; i < NumberXa; i++)
{
for (int j = 0; j < NumberXb; j++)
{
xi = 2.0 * ((double)i / (double)NumberXa) - 1.0;
eta = 2.0 * ((double)j / (double)NumberXb) - 1.0;
N1 = 0.25 * (1 - xi) * (1 - eta);
N2 = 0.25 * (1 + xi) * (1 - eta);
N3 = 0.25 * (1 + xi) * (1 + eta);
N4 = 0.25 * (1 - xi) * (1 + eta);
Debug.Assert(N1 + N2 + N3 + N4 > 0.9999);
Debug.Assert(N1 + N2 + N3 + N4 < 1.0001);
P1 = N1 * CoordList[0] + N2 * CoordList[1] + N3 * CoordList[2] + N4 * CoordList[3];
xi = 2.0 * ((double)(i+1) / (double)NumberXa) - 1.0;
eta = 2.0 * ((double)j / (double)NumberXb) - 1.0;
N1 = 0.25 * (1 - xi) * (1 - eta);
N2 = 0.25 * (1 + xi) * (1 - eta);
N3 = 0.25 * (1 + xi) * (1 + eta);
N4 = 0.25 * (1 - xi) * (1 + eta);
P2 = N1 * CoordList[0] + N2 * CoordList[1] + N3 * CoordList[2] + N4 * CoordList[3];
xi = 2.0 * ((double)(i+1) / (double)NumberXa) - 1.0;
eta = 2.0 * ((double)(j+1) / (double)NumberXb) - 1.0;
N1 = 0.25 * (1 - xi) * (1 - eta);
N2 = 0.25 * (1 + xi) * (1 - eta);
N3 = 0.25 * (1 + xi) * (1 + eta);
N4 = 0.25 * (1 - xi) * (1 + eta);
P3 = N1 * CoordList[0] + N2 * CoordList[1] + N3 * CoordList[2] + N4 * CoordList[3];
xi = 2.0 * ((double)i / (double)NumberXa) - 1.0;
eta = 2.0 * ((double)(j+1) / (double)NumberXb) - 1.0;
N1 = 0.25 * (1 - xi) * (1 - eta);
N2 = 0.25 * (1 + xi) * (1 - eta);
N3 = 0.25 * (1 + xi) * (1 + eta);
N4 = 0.25 * (1 - xi) * (1 + eta);
P4 = N1 * CoordList[0] + N2 * CoordList[1] + N3 * CoordList[2] + N4 * CoordList[3];
Xes.Append(uidoc.FamilyCreate.NewSymbolicCurve(Line.CreateBound(P1, P3), sk));
Xes.Append(uidoc.FamilyCreate.NewSymbolicCurve(Line.CreateBound(P2, P4), sk));
}
}
}
return Result.Succeeded;
}
How can I include the additional SymbolicCurves into the origional sketch of the opening?
Any help would be great.
Thanks
Christian
