Creating a Schematic Document

Schematics Platform Modeler

Creating a Schematic Document

This macro shows you how to create a new schematic document.

Schematic documents for DS provided Schematic applications are all of the same kind. They are all special CATProduct document. Instead of having typical 3D viewers, these Schematic documents have 2D viewers embedded in them. Therefore, when using the standard way of creating a new document, an additional step is required to initialize this new document the "Schematic way". This macro illustrates this important step.

CAASchCreateSchDocument2 is launched in CATIA [1]. No open document is needed.

CAASchCreateSchDocument2.CATScript is located in the CAAScdSchUseCases module. Execute macro (Windows only).

CAASchCreateSchDocument2 includes the following steps:

Prolog
Initialize the new Schematic document the "schematic way"
Get the current CNEXT session
Create a new schematic document
Set the drawing standard

Prolog

The macro first creates a new document..

    ...
    '--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ' Create a CATProduct document
    '--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Dim objSchDoc As Document
    Set objSchDoc = CATIA.Documents.Add ("CATProduct")
    ...

Initialize the new Schematic document the "schematic way"

    ...
         '---------------------------------------------------------------------
         ' Regular CATProduct is a 3D document and is associated with a 3D
         ' editor and a 3D viewer. On the other hand a schematic document
         ' is a special CATProduct document that is associated with a special
         ' 2D viewer and 2D editor. Therefore, we need to trigger the
         ' documentation initialization (which has already been done in
         ' CATDocuments.Add) again after associating schematic
         ' behavior to the document,
         ' by saving the document and re-opening it again.
         '---------------------------------------------------------------------
         objSchDoc.SaveAs strDocName

         objSchDoc.Close

         Set objSchDoc = CATIA.Documents.Open (strDocName)
    ...

Set the drawing standard of the drafting viewer in the schematic document

A schematic document has a drafting viewer embedded in it. The drawing standard of that drafting viewer can be set by calling the SetDrawingStandard method. This macro also illustrates how to use the GetDrawingStandard method to retrieve the drawing standard of a schematic document.

    ...
         '---------------------------------------------------------------------
         ' Set the drawing standard if needed
         '---------------------------------------------------------------------
         If ( Not ( objSchRoot Is Nothing ) ) Then
            objSchRoot.SetDrawingStandard catISO
            strMessage = strMessage & "drawing standard set to catISO" & vbCr
            Dim std As CatDrawingStandard
            std = objSchRoot.GetDrawingStandard
            strMessage = strMessage & "drawing standard = " & std & vbCr
         End If
    ...

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In Short

This use case shows how to create a schematic document. A message logging the status of the critical steps is displayed at the end of the use case.

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References

[1]	Replaying a Macro

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