IS IT POSSIBLE TO AUTOMATE THE SELECTION PROCESS

Question

Hi Everyone,Dim selections As IpfcSelections Dim selectionOptions As IpfcSelectionOptions                                selectionOptions = (New CCpfcSelectionOptions).Create("dtl_symbol")            selectionOptions.MaxNumSels = 1            selections = session.Select(selectionOptions, Nothing)            Here what i am trying to do is after the selection of one SYMBOL. is it possible to loop the selection process so that all same type SYMBOLshould be selected from the current sheet.i tried to pass the selected SYMBOL to  "IpfcDetailItems". But is it possible to loop this so that i can get hold of all symbols by selecting one symbol. I tried using For loop but it didn't worked well.Please tell me a method to select similar kind of symbols from a drawing template.With RegardsAghil.M

sjuraj · Accepted Answer

Try this (I use j-link methods, but there are similar in VB):

String symbolName = "B"; // this is text value to compare

DetailItems items = owner.ListDetailItems(pfcDetail.DETAIL_SYM_INSTANCE, null);

DetailSymbolInstItem item = items.get(i);

DetailSymbolInstInstructions instructs = item.GetInstructions(false);

DetailVariantTexts textVals = instructs.GetTextValues();

DetailVariantText textVal = textVals.get(0);

String text = textVal.GetValue(); // this is String value of symbol instance

then you can compatre value:

if (text.equals(symbolName))

item.Remove();

I hope this will help you.

sjuraj · Answer

If your goal is to select all symbols of same type you can easily use search tool and search for symbol by its name:

If you need to do it programmically you can create macro in you application. Remebmer your macro will run only after your program returns control to Creo. You can however do it pure programmically:

User will pick instance -> get name of it -> select all model items of dtl_symbol type with name of selecten instance -> remember to put your selections into buffer if the user will need to handle with this selection

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