I'm making a macro to automatically open a new drawing on the correct sheet format with filled in title block but I can't seem to figure out how to insert a pre-made .CATDrawing in the same way the following option in the page setup dialog box would:
see here: https://i.sstatic.net/BJTTr.png
my current progress looks like this:
Sub CATMain()
Dim partDoc As PartDocument
Set partDoc = CATIA.ActiveDocument
Dim myParam As Parameter
Set myParam = partDoc.Part.parameters.Item("Description")
Dim documents1 As Documents
Set documents1 = CATIA.Documents
Dim MyDrawingDoc As DrawingDocument
Set MyDrawingDoc = documents1.Add("Drawing")
MyDrawingDoc.Standard = catISO
Dim MyDrawingSheets As DrawingSheets
Set MyDrawingSheets = MyDrawingDoc.Sheets
Dim MyDrawingSheet As DrawingSheet
Set MyDrawingSheet = MyDrawingSheets.Item("Sheet.1")
MyDrawingSheet.PaperSize = catPaperA3
MyDrawingSheet.[Scale] = 1#
MyDrawingSheet.Orientation = catPaperLandscape
**CATIA.StartCommand "Page Setup"**
Dim dView As DrawingViews
Set dView = MyDrawingSheet.Views
dView.Item("Background View").Activate
AddTextWithLinkedParameter dView, 20, 20, myParam
End Sub
Sub AddTextWithLinkedParameter(dViewToContainTheText As DrawingViews, xPos, yPos, Optional param As Parameter)
Dim dtext As DrawingText
Set dtext = dViewToContainTheText.ActiveView.Texts.Add("", xPos, yPos)
If Not param Is Nothing Then
dtext.InsertVariable 0, 0, param
End If
End Sub
This line here
CATIA.StartCommand "Page Setup"
should be replaced by a sequence of codes that does the same thing as clicking the options would as shown in the image above.
Directly opening the .CATdrawing template has the same result.
One can do this by using the follwing code:
Dim documents1 As Documents
Set documents1 = CATIA.Documents
Dim mydrawingdoc As DrawingDocument
Set mydrawingdoc = documents1.Open("Path\Template.CATDrawing")