My macro (see below) boss extrudes all of the regions in a sketch (since hitting ctrl + a doesn't work while selecting regions). It works for sketches with a few (~100) regions. However for sketches with >600 regions (see attached part), it causes SolidWorks to soft-lock. I believe this happens because, during a boss extrude, SolidWorks recalculates the state of everything after each selection. Thus during the macro it *selects region* -> *state recalculation* -> *selects region* -> *state recalculation* -> ... . Meaning its recalculating the state >600 times. It only needs to do this 1 time, once everything has been selected (which is a feature request in and of itself).

So, my question: How do you select all of the regions inside of a sketch AT THE SAME TIME as opposed to one at a time, so solidworks only calculates the state of the selection once.

Notes:

I know you can turn off the "use shaded preview option". This might reduce the recalculation time, but its still recalculating >600 times, and its not sufficient.

The macro must be run while currently editing a sketch (I dont know how to get what sketches the user has selected in the feature tree using VBA)

I could have the macro do separate extrudes for every 50 regions, and then combine them. That will be the workaround around the workaround around the workaround if there's no proper solution.

VBA:

Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks
Dim swSelectionMgr As SldWorks.SelectionMgr
Dim swSketchMgr As SldWorks.SketchManager
Dim myModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2
Dim mySelectData As SldWorks.SelectData
Dim mySketch As SldWorks.sketch
Dim myFeature As SldWorks.feature
Dim vSkRegions As Variant
Dim skRegion As SketchRegion
Dim regionCount As Long
Dim i As Long
Dim boolstatus As Boolean
Dim prevSetting As Boolean
Option Explicit
Sub main()
    Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
    Set myModel = swApp.ActiveDoc
    Set swSelectionMgr = myModel.SelectionManager
    Set swSketchMgr = myModel.SketchManager
    Set mySelectData = swSelectionMgr.CreateSelectData
    Set mySketch = swSketchMgr.ActiveSketch
    Set myFeature = mySketch
    
    
    
    ' Sketch to extrude
    boolstatus = myModel.Extension.SelectByID2(myFeature.Name, "SKETCH", 0, 0, 0, False, 0, Nothing, 0)
    ' Enable selecting contours
    prevSetting = swSelectionMgr.EnableContourSelection
    swSelectionMgr.EnableContourSelection = True
    
    If Not mySketch Is Nothing Then
        ' Find the regions of the sketch
        regionCount = mySketch.GetSketchRegionCount()
        vSkRegions = mySketch.GetSketchRegions()
        
        For i = LBound(vSkRegions) To UBound(vSkRegions)
            ' Loop through each region and select it.
            Set skRegion = vSkRegions(i)
            boolstatus = skRegion.Select2(True, mySelectData)
        
        Next i
    
    End If
    
    ' Create the extrusion
    Set myFeature = myModel.FeatureManager.FeatureExtrusion3(True, False, True, swEndCondBlind, 0, 0.004, 0, False, False, False, False, 0, 0, False, False, False, False, True, True, True, swStartSketchPlane, 0, False)
    swSelectionMgr.EnableContourSelection = prevSetting
    
    
End Sub