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StrPlates (Collection)

A collection of the Plate objects contained in a given Product object of a ProductDocument object.
A Product object can aggregate one or zero Plates collection. This collection is retrieved using the Product.GetTechnologicalObject method of the product.
Example:
The following example retrieves the plate collection from the oProduct Product. 
 Dim oPlates as AnyObject
 Set oPlates = oProduct.GetTechnologicalObject("StructurePlates")

Method Index

Item
Returns a plate from its index in the Plates collection.
Remove
Removes a plate from the Plates collection.

Methods


o Func Item( iIndex) As
Returns a plate from its index in the Plates collection.
Parameters:
iIndex
The index of the plate to retrieve in the collection of plates. This index can either be the rank of the plate in the collection or the name you assign to the plate. As a numerics, this index is the rank of the plate in the collection. The index of the first plate in the collection is 1, and the index of the last plate is Count. As a string, it is the name you assigned to the plate using the
AnyObject.Name property
Returns:
The retrieved plate
Example:
The following example returns in ThisPlate the third plate, and in ThatPlate the plate named EndPlate_1 in the Assembly_1 plate collection. 
 Dim ThisPlate As Plate
 Set ThisPlate = Assembly_1.Item(3)
 Dim ThatPlate As Plate
 Set ThatPlate = Assembly.Item("EndPlate_1")
o Sub Remove( iIndex)
Removes a plate from the Plates collection.
Parameters:
iIndex
The index of the plate to remove. This index can either be the rank of the plate in the collection or the name you assigned to the plate. As a numerics, this index is the rank of the plate in the collection. The index of the first plate in the collection is 1, and the index of the last plate is Count. As a string, it is the name you assigned to the plate using the
AnyObject.Name property
Example:
The following example removes the sixth plate and the plate named EndPlate_1 from the Assembly_1 plate collection. 
 Assembly_1.Remove(6)
 Assembly_1.Remove("EndPlate_1")

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