CATIAV5ArrWorkbench, CATIAArrBOMReport Interfaces Use Case

Arrangement

CATIAV5ArrWorkbench, CATIAArrBOMReport Interfaces Use Case

This example shows how to extract a report of Arrangement objects within a document. Help is taken of a macro. This macro has a reference to CATIAArrBOMReport, CATIAV5ArrWorkbench Interfaces (referred to as ArrBOMReport, Workbench in the reference Visual Basic document).

This macro opens an existing Product document and retrieves the CATIAArrWorkbench selection. Then it finds the interface CATIAArrBOMReport. It then generates the BOM report and saves the report.

CATArrPipingBOMReport is launched after CATIA is up and the reference document is opened.

CATArrPipingBOMReport.CATScript is located in the runtime directory Operating System (say intel_a)\code\command

CAAArrPipingBOMReport includes the following steps:

Prolog
Declare the macro variables
Obtain the CATIAArrBOMReport Interface
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Prolog

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  a) Open the Input Document with Arrangement objects.
  b) Run the macro.
  ...

Once the Product has been loaded, the macro is designed to read the relevant objects from the model.

Declare the Macro Variables

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   Dim objCATIAV5Document As Document
   Dim objCATIAV5ArrWorkbench As Workbench
   Dim objCATIAV5ArrBOMReport As ArrBOMReport
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Obtain the CATIAArrBOMReport Interface

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   Set objCATIAV5Document = CATIA.ActiveDocument

   '//---------- Get ArrWorkbench from current document
   Set objCATIAV5ArrWorkbench = objCATIAV5Document.GetWorkbench("ArrWorkbench")
   '//---------- Get CATIAArrBOMReport from ArrWorkbench
   Set objCATIAV5ArrBOMReport = objCATIAV5ArrWorkbench.FindInterface ("CATIAArrBOMReport",objCATIAV5Document)
   '//---------- Generate the report
   objCATIAV5ArrBOMReport.GenerateBOMReport objCATIAV5Document, strGReportOutputPath
   ' Store this reported data.
  ...

Epilog

Thus we saw how to read a CATProduct document, retrieve the interface we are interested in and generate a report on these objects

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In Short

Thus we saw how to read a Product document, retrieve the interface we are interested in and generate a report on these objects.

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References

[1]	Replaying a macro
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