trigger catia

[Gokul Shanmugasundaram]

Hello,

I’m trying to achieve the following in CATIA:

• When the user clicks Save on the active document in CATIA, a message box should appear.
• At the same time, a macro should run automatically and display the results.

Alternatively, if the user clicks a custom button in the UI for the active document, and then later clicks Save, it should still trigger the message box.
Here's the code I’ve tried so far:

Public WithEvents partDoc As PartDocument
Public WithEvents prodDoc As ProductDocument
Public WithEvents drawDoc As DrawingDocument

Public Sub Init(doc As Document)
' Check the document type and set the appropriate object for events
Dim docTypeName As String
docTypeName = LCase(TypeName(doc))

Select Case docTypeName
Case "partdocument"
Set partDoc = doc
Case "productdocument"
Set prodDoc = doc
Case "drawingdocument"
Set drawDoc = doc
Case Else
MsgBox "Unsupported document type: " & docTypeName, vbCritical
Exit Sub
End Select

MsgBox "Save event agent enabled for: " & docTypeName
End Sub

Private Sub partDoc_OnBeforeSave()
MsgBox "Saving Part... Agent triggered!"
End Sub

Private Sub prodDoc_OnBeforeSave()
MsgBox "Saving Product... Agent triggered!"
End Sub

Private Sub drawDoc_OnBeforeSave()
MsgBox "Saving Drawing... Agent triggered!"
End Sub


regards
Gokul

 

[Little Cthulhu]

Not possible with VB. There're no event APIs in CATIA automation.

Document can be saved by numerous ways, it's not possible to monitor it reliably.