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MuriloSilva10-Marble
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August 9, 2016
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Create Mapkey to select the last balloon created

  • August 9, 2016
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Hello everyone.

Does anyone know how to create a mapkey to select the last balloon created?

I need that when a user finish creating the balloon it be already selected. It's possible?

Thank you very much.


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Best answer by James62

Hi,

It turns out that I was right on this little theory of mine above saying that the last balloon added to the drawing might be the last symbol instance as seen in an array by J-Link.

Bellow is the core of the Java code that happens to select the last balloon or any symbol instance for that matter that has been added to the drawing.

Window window = session.GetCurrentWindow();


Model model = window.GetModel();


// autoselect all symbol instances


ModelItems modelItems = model.ListItems(ModelItemType.ITEM_DTL_SYM_INSTANCE);


// retrieve the symbol positioned at the end of the array


ModelItem modelItem = modelItems.get(modelItems.getarraysize() - 1);


// add the symbol to a new selection


Selection selection = pfcSelect.CreateModelItemSelection(modelItem, null);


// get the current selection buffer


SelectionBuffer selBuffer = session.GetCurrentSelectionBuffer();


// erase the current selection buffer


selBuffer.Clear();


// add the selection to a the selection buffer


selBuffer.AddSelection(selection);

Hopefully you will be able to figure out how to run J-Link and set it up throught your company. If you run into any trouble just throw me a PM.

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James621-Visitor
1-Visitor
August 10, 2016

I don't think it can be done using say find tool within a regular mapkey.

It'd propably require J-Link or maybe any other API that can see the bom balloon symbol instances in an array. That way all it would take is to select programatically the last member of the array, if they are added to the array in the same order as they are created.

To select programatically means having J-Link to load it into the selection buffer.

Can you explain a bit better why would you need anything like this?

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    MuriloSilva10-MarbleAuthor
    10-Marble
    August 11, 2016

    Hello James. Thank you for your comment.

    Sorry I haven't answered before.

    Here in our company the lead-time is greatly reduced and any gain is important.

    When we create a balloon always we need to adjust the "edit attachment" and the balloon's position, so it would be interesting a mapkey to create a balloon in first click, the second click to indicate the surface for attachment and the third click the definition of its location.

    I've created two mapkeys, one only to create the balloon and the other mapkey that makes the others procedures, but together these mapkeys would gain the most.

    What remains to join the two mapkeys is to create a means to select the last created balloon.

    J
    James621-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    August 12, 2016

    All i can tell right now is that i'd be interested in seeing such macro, because ballooning assemly drawings in Creo is just pain and torture.

    I'll try to remember this and try if J-Link can possibly select the last balloon, but right now just bear with me, it's gonna take me a while to get to that.

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      Jose_Costa12-Amethyst
      12-Amethyst
      August 12, 2016

      When you place a balloon, the ballon stays selected until you pick a point on screen to deselect it.

      So, you just have to end your first mapkey before the ballon is deselected, then call the following mapkeys.

      Look at the example bellow, mapkey F10 will create a balloon and in the end will call mapkey F11 do edit attachment.

      Hope it helps.

      Jose

      mapkey $F10 ~ Command `ProCmdDwgCreateBallon` ;#WITH LEADER;#MAKE NOTE;@PAUSE_FOR_SCREEN_PICK;\
      

      mapkey(continued) @PAUSE_FOR_SCREEN_PICK;#;#DONE/RETURN; %$F11;
      

      

      

      mapkey $F11 ~ Command `ProCmdDwgModAtt` ;@PAUSE_FOR_SCREEN_PICK;#DONE/RETURN;
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        MuriloSilva10-MarbleAuthor
        10-Marble
        August 12, 2016

        Hi Jose Costa.

        Thank you by your comment, but this balloon type don't is used here.

        We use only the balloon  "created by component" (controled by table with repeat region), and this type of balloon don't stay selected after your creating.

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        TomasLoun1-Visitor
        1-Visitor
        November 9, 2016

        James62 is right I think. This cannot be solved by macro, you have to use J-Link or Pro/Toolkit code...

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