Measure bodies distance 1

[TiagoFigueiredo]

I need a macro to do the following. I have two bodies located in 2 different parts, that I need to measure the distance between both.

How can I do it? I only have four days examples for parts.

I'm doing in vb.net, but you can help me in the other languages.

Tiago Figueiredo
Tooling Engineer

Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1qdlBeJJEgMgpPLVJoOIOw

 

[TiagoFigueiredo]

Found it.

Sub CATMain()

Dim partDocument1 As PartDocument
Set partDocument1 = CATIA.ActiveDocument

Dim part1 As Part
Set part1 = partDocument1.Part

'Two bodies are already selected

Set selection1 = partDocument1.Selection


Dim a As Body
Dim b As Body

Set a = selection1.Item(1).Value
Set b = selection1.Item(2).Value


Dim reference1 As Reference
    Set reference1 = part1.CreateReferenceFromObject(a)
    Dim reference2 As Reference
    Set reference2 = part1.CreateReferenceFromObject(b)


'get the SPAworkbench
Dim TheSPAWorkbench As Workbench
Set TheSPAWorkbench = CATIA.ActiveDocument.GetWorkbench("SPAWorkbench")
 
Dim TheMeasurable As Measurable
Set TheMeasurable = TheSPAWorkbench.GetMeasurable(reference1)
 
Dim MinimumDistance As Double
MinimumDistance = TheMeasurable.GetMinimumDistance(reference2)


End Sub

Tiago Figueiredo
Tooling Engineer

Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1qdlBeJJEgMgpPLVJoOIOw

 

[ferdo]

I suppose you have a good reason to do a macro for this . Otherwise you can also export measures if you need distances to be written somewhere...

Regards
Fernando

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[TiagoFigueiredo]

There is always a good reason for something

But i don't have the need to export it. It's something that I need during a macro execution, Depending in the value of the measure it does some actions.

Tiago Figueiredo
Tooling Engineer

Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1qdlBeJJEgMgpPLVJoOIOw

 

[ferdo]

Make sense... .

Regards
Fernando

https://picasaweb.google.com/102257836106335725208

- Romania

https://picasaweb.google.com/103462806772634246699/

- EU