Change part colour using SW API

[Hacaro]

I am trying to change the colour of a part document using VB.
Is it necessary to select every single face and set the desired colour or is it possible to change the colour of the part in one simple operation?

I think it is possible since it's posible in SW (select the first feature in the tree and push change colour button).

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[TheTick]

It is possible to change the part color with API, however, this does not override the face color if the face color or feature color if there iss a specific color set at that level.

You may want to include a subroutine to reset the face colors of all the faces in a selected body. I believe there are examples for this in the API help. Look under "Face2:MaterialPropertyValues", "GetFirstFace" and "GetNextFace" in the API help index.

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[TheTick]

BTW, part color is controlled with PartDoc::MaterialProperty

 

[Hacaro]

Great!

PartDoc::MaterialProperty

I'll try it immediately.
Thanks a lot.

 

[TheTick]

D'oh! It's "PartDoc::MaterialropertyValues". I didn't get it all when I cut-and-pasted before. Sorry.

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[Hacaro]

Yep, this is the way to go! It works fine.
Just took me a while to figure out how to pass the "safearray".
This is the way to do it:
1) define a variant and an array of doubles
2) assign the desired values to each member of the array
3) variant = array
4) pass the variant between brackets!
ex. MaterialropertyValues (variant)

Then everything works fine.
This only seems to work for VB and not for VBA.