Hi everyone,
Currently when I tansform a child part into a virtual in an assembly, the custom properties remain identical. This causes conflicts in PDM, as some of this properties are link to variable that must remain unique.
I’m looking for a way to clean (=delete) all custom properties already existing in a file when transforming this file into a virtual. Any idea?
Hi,
Here’s my solution. It makes virtual only parts.
You can select multiple parts as well.
Option Explicit
Sub Main()
Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks
Dim swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2
Dim swcomp As SldWorks.Component2
Dim swSelMgr As SldWorks.SelectionMgr
Dim swAssembly As SldWorks.AssemblyDoc
Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
Set swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc
Set swAssembly = swApp.ActiveDoc
Set swSelMgr = swModel.SelectionManager
If swSelMgr.GetSelectedObjectCount = 0 Then
MsgBox "Please select at least one component.", vbOKOnly + vbInformation
End
End If
Dim i As Integer
Dim ParentComponent As SldWorks.Component2
Dim SelectedComponentsID() As Variant
ReDim SelectedComponentsID(swSelMgr.GetSelectedObjectCount - 1)
For i = 1 To swSelMgr.GetSelectedObjectCount
Set swcomp = swSelMgr.GetSelectedObjectsComponent2(i)
Set ParentComponent = swcomp.GetParent
If (swcomp.GetModelDoc2().GetType = swDocumentTypes_e.swDocPART) And (ParentComponent Is Nothing) Then
SelectedComponentsID(i - 1) = swcomp.GetID
Else
MsgBox "You have selected an assembly document type or a child part: " & GetComponentName(swcomp.GetPathName), vbOKOnly + vbInformation
End If
Next
For i = 1 To swSelMgr.GetSelectedObjectCount
If (swcomp.MakeVirtual) = 1 Then
Set swcomp = swAssembly.GetComponentByID(SelectedComponentsID(i - 1))
Dim RefModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2
Dim RefConfigMgr As SldWorks.ConfigurationManager
Dim RefConfig As SldWorks.Configuration
Set RefModel = swcomp.GetModelDoc2
Dim ConfigNames As Variant
ConfigNames = RefModel.GetConfigurationNames
ReDim Preserve ConfigNames(UBound(ConfigNames) + 1)
Dim RefCustomPropMgr As SldWorks.CustomPropertyManager
Dim j As Integer
For j = 0 To UBound(ConfigNames)
Set RefCustomPropMgr = RefModel.Extension.CustomPropertyManager(ConfigNames(j))
Dim PropertyNames As Variant
RefCustomPropMgr.GetAll PropertyNames, Nothing, Nothing
Dim h As Integer
For h = 0 To UBound(PropertyNames)
RefCustomPropMgr.Delete PropertyNames(h)
Next
Next
RefModel.Save2 True
Else
MsgBox "Making virtual component " & GetComponentName(swcomp.GetPathName) & " was not possible!", vbOKOnly + vbExclamation
End If
Next
End Sub
Private Function GetComponentName(ByVal RefComponent As Variant) As String
RefComponent = Split(RefComponent, "\")
GetComponentName = RefComponent(UBound(RefComponent))
End Function
Thanks for this code, I’ll try it.
However I already see that it doesn’t work on a virtual assembly which is one of my main issue today 
(I have to go through and open each sub-assy and re-run the macro.)
I managed to get the following code on another forum, which goes through all child of the current model. It works on a child virtual assembly but no on the child of this sub-assembly. I didn’t manage to get an iterative run of the code within the code 
Option Explicit
Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks
Dim doc As SldWorks.ModelDoc2
Dim swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2
Dim asm As SldWorks.AssemblyDoc
Dim compDoc As SldWorks.ModelDoc2
Dim swModelDocExt As ModelDocExtension
Dim swCustProp As CustomPropertyManager
Dim swConfig As SldWorks.Configuration
Dim swConfMgr As SldWorks.ConfigurationManager
Dim comp As SldWorks.Component2
Dim components As Variant
Dim vComp As Variant
Dim pathChain As Variant
Dim titleChain As Variant
Dim vPath As Variant
Dim vConfigNameArr As Variant
Dim vConfigName As Variant
Dim vPropNames As Variant
Dim vPropTypes As Variant
Dim vPropValues As Variant
Dim resolved As Variant
Dim linkProp As Variant
Dim nDocType As Long
Dim nErrors As Long
Dim nWarnings As Long
Dim nNbrProps As Long
Dim lRetVal As Long
Dim j As Long
Dim i As Long
Dim bResult3 As Boolean
Dim boolstatus As Boolean
Dim wasResolved As Boolean
Dim linkToProp As Boolean
Dim ValOut As String
Dim ResolvedValOut As String
Dim sCustProp As String
Dim sConfig As String
Sub main()
Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
Set doc = swApp.ActiveDoc
If doc Is Nothing Then Exit Sub
If doc.GetType <> swDocASSEMBLY Then Exit Sub
Set asm = doc
components = asm.GetComponents(False) ' Get all components
If IsArray(components) Then
For Each vComp In components
Set comp = vComp
Set compDoc = comp.GetModelDoc2
If Not compDoc Is Nothing Then
bResult3 = compDoc.Extension.IsVirtualComponent3(pathChain, titleChain)
If bResult3 <> False Then
For Each vPath In pathChain
If vPath <> doc.GetPathName Then
If InStr(LCase(vPath), "sldprt") > 0 Then
nDocType = swDocPART
ElseIf InStr(LCase(vPath), "sldasm") > 0 Then
nDocType = swDocASSEMBLY
ElseIf InStr(LCase(vPath), "slddrw") > 0 Then
nDocType = swDocDRAWING
Else
' Probably not a SOLIDWORKS file
nDocType = swDocNONE
' So cannot open the file
Exit Sub
End If
Set swModel = swApp.OpenDoc6(vPath, nDocType, swOpenDocOptions_Silent, "", nErrors, nWarnings)
Set swModelDocExt = swModel.Extension
Set swCustProp = swModelDocExt.CustomPropertyManager("")
nNbrProps = swCustProp.Count
lRetVal = swCustProp.GetAll3(vPropNames, vPropTypes, vPropValues, resolved, linkProp)
For j = 0 To nNbrProps - 1
For i = 0 To UBound(vPropNames)
sCustProp = vPropNames(i)
boolstatus = swModel.DeleteCustomInfo2("", sCustProp)
Next i
Next j
Set swConfMgr = swModel.ConfigurationManager
Set swConfig = swConfMgr.ActiveConfiguration
vConfigNameArr = swModel.GetConfigurationNames
For Each vConfigName In vConfigNameArr
Set swCustProp = swModelDocExt.CustomPropertyManager(vConfigName)
nNbrProps = swCustProp.Count
lRetVal = swCustProp.GetAll3(vPropNames, vPropTypes, vPropValues, resolved, linkProp)
For j = 0 To nNbrProps - 1
sConfig = vConfigName
For i = 0 To UBound(vPropNames)
sCustProp = vPropNames(i)
boolstatus = swModel.DeleteCustomInfo2(sConfig, sCustProp)
Next i
Next j
Next
End If
Next
End If
End If
Next
End If
End Sub
Nice.
I didn’t follow you about making virtual component by selecting an assembly component and traversing every children components for manking them virtual too.
Reading the code that you got I see the code just clear the custom properties for the detected virtual components.
My code will:
So, if you make a mistake the original file will remain unmodified.