Change Annotation View Direction automatically

[zynkana]

Hi,

I have used  "ProAnnotationplaneForcetoplaneflagSet()" and "ProDimensionPlaneSet()" to move an annotation to selected plane. But annotation "View Direction" and "Angle" are not the same, the resultant is rotated. Can you help me to set "ViewDirection" and "Angle" to original "ViewDirection" and "Angle"?

Thanks in advance

Regards,

NK

[AbySelvaraj]

Hi, @zynkana

When you are trying to execute ProDimensionPlaneSet(), your code could have returned PRO_TK_NOT_VALID. That means the ProAnnotationPlane supplied to ProDimensionPlaneSet() is not frozen.

This is kind of native Creo configuration. Even when you are trying to modify plane reference for a dimension, we can't uncheck Freeze annotation plane reference in the Edit Annotation Plane dialog as in the below snap.

So before supply the ProAnnotationPlane, freeze it using ProAnnotationplaneFrozenSet() (refer Sample Code).

Sample code:

ProAnnotationPlane cPlane;
status = ProAnnotationplaneFrozenSet(&bPlane, PRO_B_TRUE, &cPlane);
status = ProDimensionPlaneSet((ProDimension*)&pAnnotation, &cPlane);

// where,
// bPlane - deduced annotation plane
// cPlane - annotation plane frozen
// pAnnotation - annotation reference

// *Above code is tested for Creo Parametric 9.0.5.0.

Happy coding!!!

[anursingh]

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