Set Tags to edges

Submitted by dmenz on Tue, 03/18/2014 - 15:21
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Journaling / NXOpen API

Hello everyone,

I need your help in a situation I'm struggling with.

I want to Tag the edges of holes in a component I have. I want to do this by a Journal because the number of edges its quite high (around 200) so I want to tag them via Journal.

Thank you.

dmenz - Tue, 03/18/2014 - 15:46

I didn't mean to assign Tags, but to assign names (e.g. hole1, hole2, hole3, etc), Then I'll use this as Tags.

Thanks

Automative

NXJournaling - Wed, 03/19/2014 - 05:47

You want to find all the hole features in the part and give the edges custom names, is this correct?

NXJournaling - Wed, 03/19/2014 - 06:08

Here is a simple journal that will name the edges of hole features.




Option Strict Off
Imports System
Imports NXOpen

Module Module1

Sub Main()

Dim theSession As Session = Session.GetSession()
Dim workPart As Part = theSession.Parts.Work

Const holeNamePrefix As String = "hole"
Dim counter As Integer = 1

For Each tempFeat As Features.Feature In workPart.Features

If TypeOf (tempFeat) Is Features.HolePackage Then
Dim theHole As Features.HolePackage = tempFeat
For Each tempEdge As Edge In theHole.GetEdges
tempEdge.SetName(holeNamePrefix & counter.ToString)
Next
counter += 1
End If

Next

'turn on object names in the work view
workPart.Preferences.NamesBorderVisualization.ObjectNameDisplay = Preferences.PartVisualizationNamesBorders.NameDisplay.WorkView

End Sub

End Module

dmenz - Wed, 03/19/2014 - 07:53

First of all thank you very much for responding.

Unfortunately the code didn't work. I used a MsgBox to display the counter and its always 1.

I didn't model the component. I think maybe the holes are not a hole feature. Its there a way to know this?

Thank you.

Automative

dmenz - Wed, 03/19/2014 - 08:07

The journal worked perfect in another component. But it named the whole hole, i just want to name the edges or the arc.
I'll make some adjustments to the journal you posted and see what happens.

thank you.

Automative

NXJournaling - Wed, 03/19/2014 - 08:37

Actually, the code only names the edges, but it will name every edge that belongs to the hole. It may appear to have named the hole itself, but it has not.