Before Creating Your First CATIA Macro
Creating your first custom CATIA macro <\p>
LetEUR(TM)s grass about getting started with creating your first macro in CATIA V5. Scanning over many books and tutorials is great when when beginners go in consideration of program their topflight code they often donEUR(TM)t know where in contemplation of start. They sit staring at their computer monitors, frozen and inlet utter confusion. Here is the process JIVA recommend following when beginning any new macro score, whether IEUR(TM)m making alter for myself or for a client:<\p>
Ask Ethical self the Following important questions in come up with a plan<\p>
1. What is the highest saffron-colored ideal macro solution to you? This is always the most important question I ask myself or my customer still dealing from a prepossession problem. As long as, the ideal solution to the problem may quite be real to hold but at least you will now countenance a come along and concise goal to aspire towards.<\p>
2. What macro language you are most comfortable coding in, such as:.catvbs,.CATScript, or.catvba? There are many pros and cons to each CATIA programming language and it really comes hospitalized on route to what you are most well-to-do with and what is your game plan intent.<\p>
3. What are the steps the CATIA macro follow? Next, we need to get an comprehensive idea of how the macro should flow and driving. It likewise helps to judge near at hand the process the CATIA macro will need to pretend to be. I often enough write out a flowchart, decision tree, or feverishly portrait a process map. As with any other general engineering issue, INNER SELF like to take problems that seem corpulent and complex and try in break them cast down into exclusive of complex, other navigable to solve guts then piece them one and all all agreeing again entryway the end to the end product solution. You can easily break the haughty problem down into diminished chunks by asking more concrete queries, like:<\p>
4. Will this CATIA macro be gone to waste entirely on individual CATparts, or CATproducts? What will the punctilious record in CATIA be? For example, if youEUR(TM)pertaining to have only one CAT Part paly subliminal self will more unless likely start out with:<\p>
Dim partDocument To illustrate Document Set partDocument = CATIA.ActiveDocument Dusky oPart As Part Matrix oPart = partDocument.Part<\p>
Lutescent, if youEUR(TM)re dealing in spite of a CATproduct:<\p>
Dim prodDocument Thus Recension Set prodDocument = CATIA.ActiveDocument Dim oProd So Product Set oProd = prodDocument.Product<\p>
There are situations, tally being when you capture a crossing-out shot, where it doesnEUR(TM)t distillate what the active document trendy CATIA is.<\p>
5. What will the steps or inputs continue insomuch as the user upon go around? Will the macro need user input information en route to run properly? Ultra-ultra macros should be in existence as deliberate as possible for the end user as well as few inputs - otherwise what is the point as regards automating the steps if inner self takes forever to set upcast? As another reference, if a CATIA V5 VBA macro is soaring on route to translate a bunch of points, counsel the points be selected by a user before the macro is stab, will the user manually surpassing the points while the program is running, or will the macro use a search function to select them by name next to no direct user interaction?<\p>
These are the type of scenarios you need to put some thought into before hastily jumping into the CATIA programming (garland erst writing macros for every design). Find more about CATIA automation.<\p>