ForceRebuild3 is not returning FALSE if there are rebuild errors.

[rustynissan]

So I am trying to cycle through each configuration of an assembly document and check whether there are any rebuild errors. I intentionally added a mate to one configuration that causes errors, but the ForceRebuild3 method does not appear to catch it. My code is attached below. Any suggestions?

Sub main(myStr As String)
    
    Dim SW_APP          As SldWorks.SldWorks
    Dim SW_DOC          As SldWorks.ModelDoc2
    Dim boolstatus      As Boolean
    
    Debug.Print "**** START ****"
    Debug.Print myStr
    
    Set SW_APP = CreateObject("SldWorks.Application")
    Set SW_DOC = SW_APP.ActiveDoc
    
    SW_DOC.ShowConfiguration2 myStr
    boolstatus = SW_DOC.ForceRebuild3(True)
    
    Debug.Print "Succesful Rebuild?: " & boolstatus
    
    Set SW_DOC = Nothing
    Set SW_APP = Nothing
    
    Debug.Print "***** END *****"
    
End Sub

SW2009 x64 SP4.1, Vista Business x64, Intel Core i7 920 @4.2GHz, Quadro FX580, 2x 147GB 15K-rpm SAS HDs (RAID 0), 6GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM

 

[rustynissan]

Wow, haven't updated my signature in a while... it should read: "SW2011 x64 SP3.0, Windows 7 x64"

SW2011 x64 SP3.0, Windows 7 x64

 

[dedevo]

...
value = instance.ForceRebuild3(TopOnly)
...

Parameters

TopOnly
True rebuilds the top-level assembly only; false rebuilds the top-level assembly and all subassemblies

Return Value

True if the rebuild is successful, false if not

Are you expecting the sub-assemblies to be rebuilding too? You have passed "True" in to the Parameters for ForceRebuild3.

Devon Murray, EIT [Mechanical]
Solidworks 2011 SP 2.0

 

[rustynissan]

No, I actually have "False" in there now. I was trying both cases. Not necessary to rebuild that deep.

ForceRebuild3 appears to be returning "True" (-1) no matter what... I have tried declaring boolstatus as Variant type, passing it to a variable of type Long, then checking the numeric value and it still returns "-1" when there are rebuild errors in the document.

SW2011 x64 SP3.0, Windows 7 x64

 

[rustynissan]

Sorry, let me clarify. I have mates in the top-level assembly that are conflicting, causing rebuild errors. Does SolidWorks' definition of the successful rebuild of an assembly document exclude the Mates Folder?

SW2011 x64 SP3.0, Windows 7 x64

 

[rustynissan]

Well, after contacting someone at SolidWorks, it turns out that IModelDoc2::ForceRebuild3 does in fact IGNORE the mates folder. A workaround in my case was to use IModelDocExtension::GetWhatsWrongCount. If this value = 0 (after a rebuild, of course) then the rebuild is completely successful.

SW2011 x64 SP3.0, Windows 7 x64