Partbrowser: Getting PartAssembly structure by script

Manuel Armbruester

Hello alls,

 

For setting up an automated process for PartBrowser, I have the need to extract the PartAssembly structure by script.

With these lines, I get all existing Part(assembly)IDs:

*createmark parts 1 all
set Part_List [hm_getmark parts 1]

But how can I identify:

- Which of the IDs is a Part and which a PartAssembly?

- How can I identify, which Parts/PartAssemblies are included in one specific Partassembly (for extracting the assembly structure)?

 

Thanks a lot

and

best regards

Manuel

 

Michal Stefuca

Hi Manuel,

You can do the following to get a list of Part Assemblies:

# Select Part Assemblies
*createmark parts 1 "equal to value" structural_type Assembly

# Select occurences (filter out hidden prototypes)
*createmark parts 2 "equal to value" config 2

# Intersect the two selections
*markintersection parts 1 parts 2

# Get IDs of Part Assemblies
set part_assem_list [ hm_getmark parts 1 ]

In general, to check if a part/module entity is an assembly or a part, you can query the structural_type data name:

hm_getvalue parts id=<part_id> dataname=structural_type

To get the content of a Part Assembly, you can query the childrenids data name:

hm_getvalue parts id=<part_id> dataname=childrenids

This will return a list of IDs (those can be Parts or Part Assemblies if you have a nested structure). If it returns 0, it means the <part_id> is either a Part or an empty Part Assembly.

 

Thanks,

Michal Stefuca
Program Manager – API and Customization Infrastructure at Altair