My issue is that I need a vector that points in the same direction as the cylinder params, but that has a unit length of 1 (a normalized vector). Unless I am wrong, it is merely a questions of when to do the normalization, before or after the transform. Either way, I need to manipulate the values in...

Just curious... What are you trying to do here? It's not often you need to do direct math with the individual elements of a transform... The idea is to get the unit vector of the axis of a cylindrical face. 1. Get CylinderParams 2. Make transform a. Values correspond to 0, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 i...

Just a shot in the dark, but you may have to create an intermediate line similar to: double[] t1ArrayData = (double[])Transform1.ArrayData Then replace all instances of Transform1.ArrayData[n] with t1ArrayData[n] Agreed, looks like this is what it will have to be. I was hoping to avoid the work sin...

I have edited the original post to show the complete lines of code. Sorry it is so small, I can't seem to figure out how to make it bigger, these high res monitors have their drawbacks.

So I have a C# add-in that was originally built in VS2019. I recently upgraded to VS2022 and it is now reporting problems with Transform.ArrayData{}. It gives the following error: Cannot apply indexing with [] to an expression of type 'object' '. This code seems to imply a casting issue, but casting...

I think that the freeze bar would depend on your workflow. When we have extensive surfacing work to do, we design the surfaces in an independent part, export the final thing as a parasolid, and then import into a part that we use in our assemblies. It is certainly a little more work if you need to e...

Is this setting turned on? image.png If not, my advice is to turn it on and leave it on. That is a lesson we learned as well. When we do our surfacing and get hundreds of features everything must be perfect. We would sometimes get to the end of a complex part, and then have something fail way up in...

You can trim a surface using to a solid as well. OK you will not find a single thing that says it can do it but you can do it. To do this you need to select the solid before you press/select the trim feature. It is that simple, within trim feature you can not select solid to trim to but this bypass...

Hello, So I have a macro that deletes an old block from a drawing and replaces it in the same location with a new block. On some drawings it works fine and on other ones I get this popup twice whenever it is run. image.png Does anyone know of a way to have the macro close them if/when they pop up? I...

Maybe not the best way but this is what comes to mind. You could get the name of the face that you selected by your ray and then traverse through the feature tree to find which features all modify that face (by matching the name to the value returned by Ifeature GetFaces). Since multiple features co...

Same here. Most of our templates "Date modified" property are from between 2008 and 2013. We have never had a problem that I know of.

I cannot find an accessor for the sketch colour in the sketch interface. Unless it is hidden somewhere obscure, I do not think that it can be changed using the API.

Storm

Exactly!

Do you know the secret?

Perhaps I should have been a little more specific. I was hoping to place a button from my Add-In beside the "Options" button at the top of the Solidworks window...

Does anyone know if it is possible to add buttons, etc. to the quick access tools at the top of the Solidworks window?

Well, that sounds like an idea. I'll give it a try.

Thanks

Hello, I am trying to come up with a way to find which features on different components are concentric in an assembly. For example: tapped hole in one part and cut-extrude in another. Any ideas on the best way to go about this? My first thought was to select (via API) all of the temporary axes and t...

A cheaters way that I have used before is to get the file path of the part as a string and then change the .sldprt extension to .slddrw.

As long as the part and drawing are in the same folder it works fine. If not it breaks down.

"False" should turn off, and "True" should turn on.

So if you have the bendlines showing, and then run the macro, they do not turn off?

Hard to say what the issue is without seeing more lines from the code. A little more to work with would be helpful

Jordan

Does anyone have experience with selecting paper size using C#? There is a great macro on Codestack (here) but it uses a VBA function "Device Capabilities" that, according to me reading, does not exist in C#.

Thanks,
Jordan

If you are already stepping through the ASM using the api, then you should be able to open each part and then run the import diagnosis. The link to the method is below: http://help.solidworks.com/2021/english/api/sldworksapi/solidworks.interop.sldworks~solidworks.interop.sldworks.ipartdoc~importdiag...

Hello,

After a drawing note has been inserted, it is possible to change the leader option to "Attach Leader Center". Does anyone know if this can be changed somewhere in the document properties? I would like to make it the default in our drawing templets.

Does anyone know of a way to use the qty of a part in an assembly in an equation? i.e. There are 5 of part A in the ASM so D5@Sketch1 = (qty of part A) * 5?

Thanks

That is my understanding. If there is a way around it, I would love to knowl

Thanks Eddy, I should have guessed, but the error was not really related to the spline. The message was a generic "Your application has encountered a problem...index value does not exist..." I was sorting a bunch of points using lists. Everything worked fine, until I tried adding my origin...

Hello,

Does anyone have a way for creating a closed spline using the API? I have a macro that creates a spline form points but I can't find a way to close it.

I tried repeating the first point but I received an error.

Thanks,
Jordan