CATIA Macro to insert product/part without link 1

[AbhishekChavan]

Hello,

I am writing a macro to insert a part/product under a root product without having a link to it's source file.

Usually we do that with powercopy or catalog but I do not have EKL License to use this functionalities through code.

If I do it with the usual AddComponent Method from Product.Products it will still have the link with source directory and any change I made will be saved back there.

To avoid that we will save it another directory with Save Management. But, I want to avoid this method as there are many components during the process and I don't want to save it again and again in different directories.

Any help here will be useful.

Thank you.

 

[qiushui]

You can use Documents.NewFrom() method to get PartDocument or ProductDocument, this doesn't have link with the original document, then get PartDocument.Product or ProductDocument.Product, then use AddComponent() .

 

[AbhishekChavan]

Hi qiushui,

Thank you for the help.

I tried with the above method and it is working fine now. I can simultaneously call multiple parts and make changes in each instance without affecting the source file or other instances. I just need to rename the previous instance to a unique name before calling the next instance.