JOURNAL to change part annotation prefrences

[aluminum2]

I tried to record a journal to change the prefrenes for preferences->annotation then under lettering tab character size to .1 , but nothing recorded because it wasn't supported. I tried to look under in the api reference and found the following

Namespaces ► NXOpen.Preferences ► AnnotationPreferences ► SetLetteringPreferences


C# Visual Basic Visual C++

public void SetLetteringPreferences(
LetteringPreferences letteringPrefs
)


I am not sure how to read it or know what it is trying to tell me to do. I tried to do
workPart.Preferences.AnnotationPreferences.SetLetteringPreferences.Size = 0.1
but didn't have any luck.

I would like to add this preference and others in my journal and think this would be a good one to start with.

 

[cowski]

Here's a code example. I'm using NX 8.

Option Strict Off
Imports System
Imports NXOpen

Module Module1

    Sub Main()

        Dim theSession As Session = Session.GetSession()
        Dim workPart As Part = theSession.Parts.Work

        'get current lettering preferences
        Dim myLetteringPreferences As Annotations.LetteringPreferences = workPart.Annotations.Preferences.GetLetteringPreferences
        'get general text preferences
        Dim myLettering As Annotations.Lettering
        myLettering = myLetteringPreferences.GetGeneralText
        'change character size
        myLettering.Size = 0.1
        'set general text preferences
        myLetteringPreferences.SetGeneralText(myLettering)

        'do the same for appended text, dimension text, and tolerance text
        myLettering = myLetteringPreferences.GetAppendedText
        myLettering.Size = 0.1
        myLetteringPreferences.SetAppendedText(myLettering)

        myLettering = myLetteringPreferences.GetDimensionText
        myLettering.Size = 0.1
        myLetteringPreferences.SetDimensionText(myLettering)

        myLettering = myLetteringPreferences.GetToleranceText
        myLettering.Size = 0.1
        myLetteringPreferences.SetToleranceText(myLettering)

        'set the new preferences to the work part
        workPart.Annotations.Preferences.SetLetteringPreferences(myLetteringPreferences)

    End Sub

End Module

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