Hi everyone,

I have a tube with walls made out of honeycomb lines. I have the coordinates of the points in a text file and I'm able to import them in Solidworks(API). I've managed to create 3D sketch lines according to the point cloud. For the next step, I'm trying to create small cylinders around each of those lines. To do that I want to create a referance plane which is perpendicular to each line. And after this I want to create circles and extrude them as seen in the following picture.

I've written this code in API:

Dim swApp As Object

Dim skSgment As Object

Dim boolstatus As Boolean

Dim swRefPlane As SldWorks.RefPlane

Dim swSelMgr As SldWorks.SelectionMgr

Dim swRefPlaneFeatureData As SldWorks.RefPlaneFeatureData

Sub main()

Set swApp = Application.SldWorks

Set swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc

swApp.ActiveDoc.ActiveView.FrameState = 1

Dim skSegment As Object

Open "C:\Users\mylaptop\Desktop\honeycomb.txt" For Input As #1

swModel.SketchManager.Insert3DSketch True

Do While Not EOF(1)

Input #1, X1, Y1, Z1, X2, Y2, Z2

Set skSegment = swModel.SketchManager.CreateLine(1000 * X1, 1000 * Y1, 1000 * Z1, 1000 * X2, 1000 * Y2, 1000 * Z2)

Dim myRefPlane As Object

Set myRefPlane = swModel.FeatureManager.InsertRefPlane(1000 * X1, 1000 * Y1, 1000 * Z1, 0, 0, 0)

Loop

Close #1

End Sub

However, this code doesn't work for me. I'd be happy if someone can help me with this problem.