Help for Macros that "scanns" the CATdrawing sheet to get Part Number and Drawing sheet no.

[aerostudent2618]

Hi everyone im a newbie to catia,
I have very little coding C++


Problem statement:

Im doing this project where by its difficult to find where a specfic part is located in which sheet. The part can be located in different drawing sheets or only 1.

My potential solution: i was think of using vba codes to run a macro that would scan the sheet and extract the part number and its associated drawing sheet.

Help: i need advice or the code that would work, should be using BOM, or vba code is good? I really need your help.thankssss

 

[Little Cthulhu]

A common approach to do it with VBA:
1. Enable color inheritance for drawing views
2. Color the part uniquely
3. Update views
4. Use Selection.Search to find generated geometry of the color chosen in step 2.

In C++ you do it by retrieving CATIDftGenRequest from view that yields a set of CATIDftGenItem each representing single generated geometry feature which can be further used to get original product with GetProduct()