CATIArrNomenclature, CATIArrNomenclatures, CATIArrNomenclatureTrees Interfaces Use Case

Arrangement

CATIArrNomenclature, CATIArrNomenclatures, CATIArrNomenclatureTrees Interfaces Use Case

This example shows how to extract Bendable Data from BendableString objects (Pipe with bends, Tube with bends). Help is taken of a macro. This macro has a reference to CATIArrNomenclature , CATIArrNomenclatures and CATIAArrNomenclatureTrees Interfaces (referred to as ArrNomenclature, ArrNomenclatures and ArrNomenclatureTree in reference Visual Basic document).

This macro opens an existing Product document and retrieves the BaseNomenclatures from ArrNomenclatureTree. Then it obtains the ArrNomanclatures and ArrNomenclature recursively.

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

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

CAAPslNomenAccessFeat includes the following steps:

Prolog
Obtain the ArrNomenclatures object.
Start to get the information about ArrNomenclature object from ArrNomenclatures object recursively.
Epilog

Prolog

  ...
  a) Open the Input Document
  b) Run the macro
  ...

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

Obtain the ArrNomenclatures object

...
   '//---------- Get Arrworkbench from current document
   Dim objDocument0 As Object
   Set objDocument0 = CATIA.ActiveDocument  
   Dim objArrWorkbench1 As Workbench
   Set objArrWorkbench1 = objDocument0.GetWorkbench  ( "ArrWorkbench" )
   '//---------- Get ArrNomenclatureTree from ArrWorkbench
   Dim objArrNomTree1 As ArrNomenclatureTree
   Set objArrNomTree1 = objArrWorkbench1.ArrNomenclatureTree

'//---------- Get ArrNomenclatures from ArrNomenclatureTree and get a count of the Nomenclatures Dim objArrNomTopNode As ArrNomenclatures Set objArrNomTopNode = objArrNomTree1.BaseNomenclatures Dim intNBOfNom intNBOfNom = objArrNomTopNode.Count ...

Start to get the information about ArrNomenclature object from ArrNomenclatures object recursively

...
   Dim intK
   Dim objKArrNom As ArrNomenclature
   Dim strIntSysClassName
   Dim strNLSInstanceName
   Dim strIconName
  '// -------- Recursively loop Through each Nomenclature and do the following
   Set objKArrNom = objArrNomTopNode.Item(intK)
   strIntSysClassName = objKArrNom.IntSysClassName
   strNLSInstanceName = objKArrNom.NLSInstanceName
   strIconName = objKArrNom.IconName
   '// ArrNomenclature can contain various subtypes
   Dim objArrSubTypes As ArrNomenclatures
   Set objArrSubTypes = iobjArrNomen.SubTypes
   intNBOfNom = objArrSubtypes.Count
   Dim objJArrNom As ArrNomenclature
   For intJ=1 to intNBOfNom  
   Set objJArrNom = objArrSubTypes.Item(intJ) 
   strNLSInstanceName = objJArrNom.NLSInstanceName
   strIntSysClassName = objJArrNom.IntSysClassName
   strIconName = objJArrNom.IconName
   ' Call recursive function again on objJArrNom
  ...

Epilog

Thus we saw how to read a CATProduct document, retrieve the objects we are interested in and get more information about the objects

...
End Sub

[Top]

In Short

Thus we saw how to read a CATProduct document, retrieve the objects we are interested in and get more information about the objects

[Top]

References

[1]	Replaying a macro
[Top]