Get BOM by API

[bschmidt-2]

Hi everybody,

I would like to get the bill of material by API. I have already worked through vbug.pdf, but I couldn´t find a clue in this direction.

You can get the first level dependencies by IpfcModel.ListDependencies() (doing this recursively will get all dependecies for complex assemblies) but I couldn´t get the number for a part/assembly in this level?! I have played some time with IpfcComponentPath, but I think this is the wrong direction.

Here a simple example:

root.asm

- 1 x part1.prt

- 5 x part2.prt

- 2 x other.asm

      - 3 x partA.prt

      - 1 x partB.prt

- 8 x GenericPart.prt

So ListDependencies() for root.asm would return

- part1.prt

- part2.prt

- other.asm

- GenericPart.prt

But how to get the numbers? In fact to get the commercial counts for purchase I need to pass the number of other.asm (2x) down to multiply.

Hope this shows what I mean 😃

Thanks in advanced for your help.

Best regards,

Benjamin

[PARTHIBAN_K]

Hi Benjamin,

     My suggestion is instead of trying in model you go to drawing & export the BOM table,

In VB API You can easily load the BOM table to your application datagridview...

[bschmidt-2]

Hi Parthiban,

I don´t know, perhaps it´s because of the oncoming weekend, but I don´t get it 😃

With following Code I can create a BOM export as txt-file.

// create export instructions

CCpfcBOMExportInstructions bomExportCreate = new CCpfcBOMExportInstructions();

IpfcBOMExportInstructions exportInstr = bomExportCreate.Create();

IpfcExportInstructions temp = (IpfcExportInstructions)exportInstr;

// export to file

this.model.Export(fileName, temp);

But how to load the BOM table? I couldn´t find a hint in the vbug.pdf.

Best reagrds,

Benjamin

[PARTHIBAN_K · Accepted solution]

Hi Benjamin,

Try the below code

Dim AConnection As IpfcAsyncConnection = (New CCpfcAsyncConnection).Connect(Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing)

Dim BSession As IpfcBaseSession = AConnection.Session

Dim Model As IpfcModel = BSession.CurrentModel

Dim Drawing As IpfcDrawing = CType(Model, IpfcDrawing)

Dim DTables As IpfcTables = Drawing.ListTables()

Dim DTable As IpfcTable = DTables(Table)

Dim RowCount As Integer = DTable.GetRowCount

Dim ColumnCount As Integer = DTable.GetColumnCount

' GETTING COLUMN

Dim Description, Idtnr, PartNo, Qty, Sym As IpfcTableCell

For j As Integer = 2 To RowCount

For k As Integer = 1 To ColumnCount

MyCell As IpfcTableCell  = New (CCpfcTableCell).Create(j, k)

Dim ItemValue = DTable.GetText(MyCell, 0)

RowItems.Add(ItemValue(0).ToString)

Next

' GETTING CELL VALUES IN STRING FORMAT

Dim SymV, QtyV, PartNoV, DescriptionV AsString

SymV = RowItems(0).ToString

PartNoV = RowItems(1).ToString

DescriptionV = RowItems(2).ToString

QtyV = RowItems(3).ToString

' ADD VALUES TO YOUE DATAGRID HERE

Next

[bschmidt-2]

Hi Parthiban,

thank you for the great code. You gave me the hint I needed.

Unfortunately I´m using C# and the interface is not exactly the same as in VB.

E.g. if I make a IpfcDrawing out of the model, there is no ListTables-Operation. So there are a lot of obstacles to overcome 😃

FYI: I needed to use IpfcTableOwner to catch the tables. See below (C#) code for getting the cell-informations of the tables.

IpfcTableOwner owner = (IpfcTableOwner)this.model;

foreach (IpfcTable table in owner.ListTables())

{

    for (int r = 0; r <= table.GetRowCount(); r++) // Rows

    {

        string columnContent = "";

        for (int c = 0; c <= table.GetColumnCount(); c++) // Cols

        {

            IpfcTableCell tempCell = new CCpfcTableCell().Create(r, c);

            try

            {

                // Extract cell information

                Cstringseq seq = table.GetText(tempCell, (int)EpfcParamMode.EpfcDWGTABLE_NORMAL);

                string tempstr;

                seq.GetValues(0, seq.Count, out tempstr);

                columnContent += tempstr;

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                // ...

            }

        }

        Console.WriteLine("(" + r + "): " + columnContent);

    }

Best Regards,

Benjamin

[AlexCote]

Hi,

old thread revival ...

trying to do the same thing but using VB API.

I get into a problem I cannot figure out, using this code:

	Private Function GetCellText(TheTable As IpfcTable, rIdx As Integer, cIdx As Integer) As String
		Try
			Debug.Print("Number of lines in table: " & TheTable.GetRowCount)
			Debug.Print("Number of columns in table: " & TheTable.GetColumnCount)

			Dim MyCell As IpfcTableCell = (New CCpfcTableCell).Create(rIdx, cIdx)
			Dim MyText As Cstringseq = TheTable.GetText(MyCell, 0)

			Return MyText(0).ToString

		Catch ex As Exception
			MsgBox(ex.Message & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & ex.StackTrace,, GetCurrentMethod().Name)
			Return Nothing
		End Try
	End Function

I get an exception from xToolkit at the line "Dim MyText As Cstringseq = TheTable.GetText(MyCell, 0)" but I can't find what I am doing wrong.

Any idea?