CATIA VBA material retrieve

[Azzazil]

How I can read assigned material of part and print it on screen as message box?

I was trying with this script example but without success since I don't see anything when I run script.
One of possible solutions that I can see is that in part tree there is also Material parameter. Is there method in VB to get information from this parameter to read name of material?

 

[ferdo]

Interesting, I wasn't able to get directly the name of the material, I never thought of this...but...

Workarounds:
1. Write a macro to put your material in user defined properties and get from there the parameter material.
1. Get your material from a customized BoM in a product.

Regards
Fernando

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9mSHa4SOedV3dr0D3kfIWFUg7mIYm94k

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9mSHa4SOedVUEkEojiX_kdzpe0sDbaz2

 

[ferdo]

If I'm thinking again, it might be possible to extract directly the material from the parameter name, but I'm too tired now to give you exactly the solution...

Regards
Fernando

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9mSHa4SOedV3dr0D3kfIWFUg7mIYm94k

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9mSHa4SOedVUEkEojiX_kdzpe0sDbaz2

 

[ferdo]

Definitely is possible, you need to loop thru part parameters, check the existence of Material string in a parameter name, and get his value also as a string.

Regards
Fernando

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9mSHa4SOedV3dr0D3kfIWFUg7mIYm94k

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9mSHa4SOedVUEkEojiX_kdzpe0sDbaz2

 

[Azzazil]

Hi ferdo, thanks for your help I will try to make something according to your proposal, but probably for weekend because at the moment I am short with time .

 

[ferdo]

Solution here

Regards
Fernando

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9mSHa4SOedV3dr0D3kfIWFUg7mIYm94k

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9mSHa4SOedVUEkEojiX_kdzpe0sDbaz2

 

[Azzazil]

Thanks a lot ferdo