Re: Select text from level

Mike Robertson — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:49:16 GMT

I agree with Phil, a more elegant (and non-intrusive method would be to use Element Enumerator).

Here's some example code (been a while since I've done VBA but this should work).

Dim textLevel As Level

Set textLevel = ActiveDesignFile.Levels("text")

Dim scanCrit As ElementScanCriteria

scanCrit.ExcludeAllTypes

scanCrit.IncludeType (msdElementTypeText)

scanCrit.IncludeType (msdElementTypeTextNode)

scanCrit.IncludeLevel (textLevel)

Dim eleEnum As ElementEnumerator

'this returns all the text and text node element on "text" level

Set eleEnum = ActiveModelReference.Scan(scanCrit)

Do While eleEnum.MoveNext

'you can change attributes or text inside the element here

Loop

Look at the "Scan Method" in the VBA documentation for some great examples

Re: Select text from level

Phil Chouinard — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:51:09 GMT

A low-tech solution could be to replace

CadInputQueue.SendCommand "CHOOSE ELEMENT " CadInputQueue.SendCommand "POWERSELECTOR AREA BLOCK " CadInputQueue.SendCommand "POWERSELECTOR MODE ADD " CadInputQueue.SendKeyin "level element select ""level name""" ..Now I want to select only! the text in “level name” and put it “active” to use it for the following:

with

CadInputQueue.SendKeyin "mdl silentload selectby;selectby type none;selectby type text;selectby level Text;selectby execute"

(watch word-wrapping... that is all one statement) where Text in selectby level is the name of the level that you want to "isolate". A more elegant approach would be to implement a criteria scan.