When You use Weblink for Creo, You often have to use enumeration values like "pfcModelType".
To get the current type of a current model, You run something like
oSession = pfcCreate("MpfcCOMGlobal").GetProESession();
model_type = oSession.CurrentModel.Type;
This give You a number, where 0 stands for an assemble, 1 for a part and so on.
You could use this in Your code to controll some actions, like
if (model_type == 0) {
// do something with this assembly
}
if (model_type == 1) {
// do something with this part
}
Using this particular numbers in Your code can have some downsides. Firstly You can mix up the numbers. For instance You want to do something with a drawing, but Your code waits for an assembly to occur. The code also is not that human readable. A second developer might not be that familiar with those numbers. And lastly, in a new version of Creo there would be a chance, that the number changes (0 = part, 1 = assembly).
So it is better practise to use enumerations values as described in the API description. Where MDL_ASSEMBLY stands for an assemble, MDL_PART for a part and so on.
But a code like this would not work and would cause an error:
if (model_type == MDL_ASSEMBLY) {
// do something with this assembly
}
Because You would compare a number with an undefined object. It would also not be very helpful to pack MDL_ASSEMBLY in quotes.
To "convert" MDL_ASSEMBLY to a number, You have to run this to get the corresponding enumeration value:
pfcCreate("pfcMaterialPropertyType").MDL_ASSEMBLY;
So Your working code would look like this:
if (model_type == pfcCreate("pfcMaterialPropertyType").MDL_ASSEMBLY) {
// do something with this assembly
}
if (model_type == pfcCreate("pfcMaterialPropertyType").MDL_PART) {
// do something with this part
}
In general You can say that, if You want to get a certain enumeration value number, You have to run
var enumeration_value_number = pfcCreate(<<enumeration-type>>).<<enumeration-value>>;
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