NX Journal - Creating a Specific BodyCollection 3

[jmarkus]

Thanks Everyone, (especially Frank) whose been helping me with my "trial by fire" NX Journal programming.

Now I want to create a BodyCollection with specific bodies in it (not all the bodies in the part). I thought I could use BodyCollection.Add(newbody) to add a body, but it seems BodyCollection doesn't work that way. So how can I create a bodycollection (not just an array of tags - cause I still don't get how to convert those back to objects) which I can process later?

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[FrankSwinks]

To answer the second question first use

object = NXObjectManager.Get(objectTag)

here objecttag is the tag for the object. Note you must also include the necessary import

Imports NXOpen.Utilities

On the first question the most common programming method is to copy to an array from the original body collection those bodies that meet your specific requirements.

Frank Swinkels

 

[cowski]

One example of the sorting that Frank mentions can be found in the VB code I posted in thread561-312900. Here the user is allowed to select as many faces and edges as he wants; the code then sorts them into a 'myFaces' array and a 'myEdges' array. It later iterates over those arrays to show that the objects can still be accessed normally.

 

[jmarkus]

Thanks guys! And with this last bit of help I was finally able to complete my Journal.

Until the next one...

Jeff