Catia macro | Take dimensions from a drawing

[Tbertin]

Hi everybody,

I'm quite new in Catia with macro and I have one (maybe stupid) question.

From drawings, I try to take automatically the biggest dimensions for metal sheet in order to generate "length x width x thickness" note.
The problem in my macro is to check if a dimension is horizontal or vertical.

To get the dimension, I use :

Set drawingDimension = drawingDimensions1.Item(i)
DimensionSheet = drawingDimension.GetValue.Value ==> gives the value

And after I've seen on documentation this :

DimLineOrientation( ) As CatDimOrientation
Returns or orientation of dimension line.

with

enum CatDimOrientation {
catHorizontal,
catVertical,
catParallel,
catPerpandicular,
catAngle
}

But I can't manage to use it, if I check with a MsgBox the value of this, I get a number which is the same for vertical and horizontal dimension...

How can I use this or is there another way to do it ?

Thank you for your help,

Thomas

 

[Tbertin]

Update :
For example, I have one simple square metal sheet with 2 dimensions : Length and Width.
For both I tested this :

If drawingDimension.GetDimLine.DimLineOrientation = catHorizontal Then
    MsgBox "Horizontal"
ElseIf drawingDimension.GetDimLine.DimLineOrientation = catVertical Then
    MsgBox "Vertical"
ElseIf drawingDimension.GetDimLine.DimLineOrientation = catParallel Then
    MsgBox "Parallel"
ElseIf drawingDimension.GetDimLine.DimLineOrientation = catPerpandicular Then
    MsgBox "Perpandicular"
End If

But I got Horizontal for both...

 

[ferdo]

Hi Thomas,

I would do this in 3D with BoundingBox.CATScript in the unfolded SM part (I believe you can find it on net).

Regards
Fernando

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