This use case shows you how to change activation status of image.
The macro opens an Analysis document which already contains a computed Frequency case and image. The activation status of "Translational displacement vector.1" image is changed.
CAAAniPostProAcDesact is launched in CATIA [1]. No open document is needed.
CAAAniPostProAcDesact.catvbs is located in the CAAScdAniUseCases module. Execute macro (Windows only).
CAAAniPostProAcDesact includes the following steps:
- Prolog
- Retrieve Analysis Cases and Analysis Sets from the Analysis Document
- Changing the Activation Status
- Epilog
Prolog
... ' -----------------------------------------------------------
' Optional: allows to find the sample wherever it's installed
sDocPath=CATIA.SystemService.Environ("CATDocView")
If (Not CATIA.FileSystem.FolderExists(sDocPath)) Then
Err.Raise 9999,,"No Doc Path Defined"
End If
' -----------------------------------------------------------
' Open the Analysis document
sFilePath = CATIA.FileSystem.ConcatenatePaths(sDocPath, "online\CAAScdAniUseCases\samples\Cube_R13_Freq.CATAnalysis")
Set oAnalysisDocument = CATIA.Documents.Open(sFilePath)
... |
Open the Analysis document. The Analysis document is retrieved in the documentation
installation path, this path has already been stored in the sDocPath
variable. In the collection of documents, two documents can be retrieved; the Analysis document and the Part document.
Retrieve Analysis Cases and Analysis Sets from Analysis Document
... ' Retrieve the Analysis Manager Set oAnalysisManager = oAnalysisDocument.Analysis ' Retrieve the analysis model from the list of models Set oAnalysisModels = oAnalysisManager.AnalysisModels Set oAnalysisModel = oAnalysisModels.Item(1) ' Retrieve the analysis cases and the first analysis case Set oAnalysisCases = oAnalysisModel.AnalysisCases Set oAnalysisCase = oAnalysisCases.Item(1)
' Retrieve the analysis cases and the Frequency case solution
Set oAnalysisSets = oAnalysisCase.AnalysisSets
Set oAnalysisSet = oAnalysisSets.Item("Frequency Case Solution.1", catAnalysisSetSearchAll)
Set analysisImages1 = oAnalysisSet.AnalysisImages
... |
According to the general Analysis Document structure, this macro uses some standard procedures to navigate or retrieve the required objects. First, from the Document, we find the Analysis Manager Object, the Analysis Model.
The Analysis case is retrieved from list of cases by its index. The model contains only one analysis case hence we pass 1 to the method Item. Otherwise we pass the appropriate index of the desired analysis case if there are more Analysis cases. The analysis case is retrieved from the list of image by its name. The name is same as that appears in the tree, in the interactive environment.
Changing the Activation Status
... 'activation of an image
'==============
'we search image Disp_Symbol
Set oAnalysisImage = analysisImages1.Item("Disp_Symbol")
'we Activate the image
oAnalysisImage.SetActivationStatus true
'we update the image
oAnalysisImage.Update
'deactivation of an image
'===============
'we deactivate the image
oAnalysisImage.SetActivationStatus false
'we update the image
oAnalysisImage.Update
... |
Epilog
... End Sub ... |
To run the macro interactively CATDocView environment variable must be defined.
