Views on assembly

[AtomicNico]

Hi guys! That's me again but I need your help again for the last time I think!

I'm still on my piping circuit and I got a new question to ask you: I make a selection of all my parts but on each part I need to make a little selection so inside my loop I put a CATIA.StartCommand("Reframe On").
But since I got a selection that takes ALL the assembly, it makes a reframe on all the structure. But what I need is a zoom on each part to make the selection, validates, move to another part, make the selection...

How can I make it that way?

 

[pKayy]

Maybe define work object at each part level? I'm not 100% sure.

 

[itsmyjob]

when you have a selection (big one), store it in a collection, then you can make another selection (smaller or bigger) and go back to the first selection by using the collection.

Eric N.
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[AtomicNico]

So the way of doing that would be:
Make a big selection

=> put it into a collection​

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=> make a new selection inside that collection​

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=> select the object i and reframe on​

Is that so?

 

[itsmyjob]

yep

Eric N.
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[AtomicNico]

I think I did as you said but it doesn't seem to work and I don't know why...

document = CATIA.ActiveDocument
selection = document.Selection
selection.Search "(CATLndSearch.Product),all"  ===> selection of all the products of my assembly
NbParts = selection.Count
For i = 1 To NbParts
[indent]set sel = selection.Item(i)
sel.Search "Topology.CGMEdge,all"
Nbedges = sel.Count
[indent]For j = 1 to Nbedges
CATIA.StartCommand("Reframe On")
MsgBox "edge N°" & j[/indent]
Next[/indent]
Next

But when I put a MsgBox for the Nbedges, nothing appears
I think I've got a problem about my selection again...