VBA - read attachment orientation

Hi Edward,

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Unknown said:

with reading the orientation of a reference attachment.

I am not quite sure what do you mean by orientation. Do you want to know the attachment rotation relative to an active (master) model? If yes, every attachment object has Rotation property, which is Matrix3d in the case of attachment, so it contains the complete rotation information.

Unknown said:

I have some code

Is there any specific reason why do you this code? A preferred way how to locate an element (the only correct in my opinon) is to implement ILocateCommandEvents object. There are several examples how to do in MicroStation VBA help file.

Unknown said:

I cannot find a method for retrieving the saved view name.

How saved view name relates to the attachment orientation? It seems like separate independent issue.

Unknown said:

Does anyone have any suggestions?

If ILocateCommandEvents object is used, this is the way how you can receive rotation matrix for the attachment (only code from Accept event is posted):

Private Sub ILocateCommandEvents_Accept(ByVal Element As Element, Point As Point3d, ByVal View As View)
    If Element.ModelReference.IsAttachment Then
        Dim att As Attachment
        Set att = Element.ModelReference.AsAttachment
        
        Dim rotation As Matrix3d
        rotation = att.rotation
    End If
End Sub

With regards,

  Jan