Hello I like to get the volume of a selected element from a macro. The following code gives the error "type mismatch": Sub CATMain() CATIA.ActiveDocument.Selection.Clear() Set dok = CATIA.ActiveDocument Set volym=dok.selection Dim objtyp(0) objtyp(0)="Pad" msgbox ("select a pad") status=volym.SelectElement(objtyp,"Select a Pad",true) set ref1=volym.Item(1).value status=volym.EndSelectElement() GetVolume(ref1) End Sub I think that the argument for GetVolume (ref1) is the wrong data type How do I use GetVolume?

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How do I use GetVolume in a CATIA macro?

Thread starter ROST
Start date Jan 13, 2004

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Jan 13, 2004

ROST

Mechanical

Hello

I like to get the volume of a selected element from a macro.
The following code gives the error "type mismatch":

Sub CATMain()
CATIA.ActiveDocument.Selection.Clear()
Set dok = CATIA.ActiveDocument
Set volym=dok.selection
Dim objtyp(0)
objtyp(0)="Pad"
msgbox ("select a pad&quot

status=volym.SelectElement(objtyp,"Select a Pad",true)
set ref1=volym.Item(1).value
status=volym.EndSelectElement()
GetVolume(ref1)
End Sub

I think that the argument for GetVolume (ref1) is the wrong data type

How do I use GetVolume?