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[Sterling Butters]

Greetings,

 

I am trying to "check the box" for a number of parts in the structure tree. Using the recording feature of the API, I get the ViewHelper.SetObjectVisibility class/method. Trying to apply this to my existing selection yields nothing though - code below. How can I toggle the parts based on my existing selection?

 

select_bodies = []

for i_body in GetRootPart()GetComponents():

 

    if i_body.GetName().Equals(""):

        select_bodies.append(i_body)

 

# Change Object Visibility

selection = Selection.Create(select_bodies)

visibility = VisibilityType.Show

inSelectedView = False

faceLevel = False

ViewHelper.SetObjectVisibility(selection, visibility, inSelectedView, faceLevel)

# EndBlock

 

# Change Object Visibility

selection = Selection.Create(select_bodies)

ViewHelper.HideOthers(selection)

# EndBlock

[Aniket]

    if i_body.GetName().Equals(""):

        select_bodies.append(i_body)  

 

Are you checking bodies with blank name?

-Aniket

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[mjmiddle]

There are several problems in that first section:

1. You forgot a dot (".") between GetRootPart() and GetComponents()
2. A body is not a component. Maybe this was just a naming convention you were using in your script, because you can turn on/off visibility of components the same way as bodies. But you could have just as well named your variable i_component instead of i_body to be more clear, but it's just a variable name. However, if you intended to get bodies, you can get all bodies this with GetRootPart().GetAllBodies(). Or to get a body within a component (1st component in this case), go through the "Content" object: GetRootPart().Components[0].Content.Bodies. To get a component by name: comp = GetRootPart().GetComponents(comp_name)[0].
3. An Aniket mentioned, bodies in SpaceClaim cannot exist without a name, so searching for bodies with blank names is not a sensible strategy.

[Sterling Butters]

@Aniket

Sorry, I did not clarify that I did not provide the body name (since it is variable/changing). 

I was able to get it working with:

selection = Selection.Create([body for body in GetRootPart().GetAllBodies() if body.Parent.GetName() == ComponentName])
    visibility = VisibilityType.Show
    inSelectedView = False
    faceLevel = False
    ViewHelper.SetObjectVisibility(selection, visibility, inSelectedView, faceLevel)

Which I think implements the logic suggested by @mjmiddle

Thanks!