Can anybody help?
Is it possible, using a SolidWorks VBA macro, to check an assembly (.sldasm) for "Missing Parts" or "Broken Links"?
I have loaded an assembly and it cannot find certain parts.
I need a macro to firstly check the assembly before it runs the rest of a macro that I am writing.
Many thanks in advance!!!
Darren
Get all components and then using check for existing using FileObjectSystem. Pretty easy...
Not quite that simple with sub assemblies that have changed since the upper level assembly was last saved.
Also have issues if files with same name stored in different locations and one assembly is looking for file in one folder and other in another folder. The way SOLIDWORKS opens assemblies is the order they appear in the tree. When it gets to a subassembly, it then opens all the files in that subassembly. If a file name is already opened, it will use that one even if the assembly says it should be in some other folder..
Not sure I understand your first point.
If you use API to get a list of all components of a top level assembly, it gets components in subassemblies when the top level assembly was last saved. If that subassembly was modified since that time by adding components, the top level assembly will not know they are need for it. Opposite is true if component is removed from the subassembly. Top level will still think it is needed.
Darren,
I have something that does this, but it becomes rather complicated searching network locations for files existing.
I started with this: 2019 SOLIDWORKS API Help - Get Dependencies for Open and Unopened Documents Example (VBA)
It will give you a list of files dependencies. Then you would just have to check whether they all exist. If the file came from an external source, you will see drive locations you don't have, so then you need some method to check whether or not your actual server locations have these files or if they are just MIA. Or you could make a list of missing files and try to track them all down.
If fso.FileExists(vfil) = False Then
(write filepath to txt)
Hope that helps point you in the direction you need.