Hi,
I am trying to mate two parts together using the concentric feature using API.
As show in the picture below, the bottom of the cylinder needs to be concentric with the circle on the bottom surface named "Circle1" . I have also named the bottom edge of the cylinder Bottom Pin to try and mate them by name . If anyone could assist me here it would be nice as I am new and have been stuck for a while now.
Attached is a code I attempted to use but was unable to work
Hi Peter,
Thanks again for the help! I changed the typo but it keeps saying object variable not set which leads me to believe im not actually selecting the sketch . Can you help me check if this part of the code is correct
' Get the second component to mate
Set swComponent = swAssy.GetComponentByName("NewBase-1")
' Get this component's modeldoc2 object
Set swCompModel = swComponent.GetModelDoc2
Set swPart = swCompModel
' Get the named face for this component
Set swEntity = swPart.GetEntityByName("Circle1", swSelSKETCHES)
' Get the face entity object for this component
Set swFace2 = swComponent.GetCorrespondingEntity(swEntity)
'
Does this code actually select the sketch? thanks for the hekp
No that will not select the sketch or select an entity. You call no Select method in that piece of code.
The fact that you mention an error message makes me believe you have not actually stepped through your code line by line. Please always do that first, it will usually tell you at which line it starts going wrong.
I think I'm not too familiar with the syntax, so I dont really know how to select the entity. Could you help me out here for this part as I have been lost for sometime.
I started by adding Option explicit at the top of the macro to make sure each variable is defined. You have a typo here:
bRet = sw.Face2.Select4(True, Nothing)
So the selection isn't gonna work. You should be able to see this when you step through the macro line by line. You would have then also seen that EntitiesToMate(1) is nothing, probably.