Change name CATIA macro tutorial + free macro download

August 12, 2018January 5, 2020 Harun 10 Comments

Change name CATIA macro

Changing names during the work in CATIA is a common act, here is free VB macro to help you organize those names.

This free change name CATIA macro can help you a lot. It’s very simple but very useful. If you like to be very organized this is just the perfect solution for element names. To run this name CATIA macro you need to enter a name for your elements and start the macro. After that, you need to select as many elements you want and macro will change names. For example, if you enter Test, it will go like Test1, Test2 and so on.

Change name CATIA macro code

This CATIA macro is based on this code.
Add-on for VB code is making an error it converts “&” to “&”

Sub CATMain()

'This code is edited and adjusted so you can just copy it in macro editor!
'We must to use InputBox instead of using textbox in Visaul Basic

Dim ElementName as string
ElementName = InputBox("Please eneter element name")

Dim documents1 As Documents
Set documents1 = CATIA.Documents
Dim Selection As Selection

'We must use multiple selection for elment selection
Set Selection = CATIA.Activedocument.selection

Dim ElementsArray(0)
ElementsArray(0) = "AnyObject"
Dim Status As String
Status = Selection.SelectElement3(ElementsArray, "Select Elements for name change", False, CATMultiSelectionMode.CATMultiSelTriggWhenUserValidatesSelection, False)

'We must use for loop to

Dim i As Single
For i = 1 To Selection.Count
Selection.Item(i).Value.name = ElementName &amp; "__" &amp; i

'FOR INTERNET EXPLORER USERS ONLY:PLEASE CAHNGE "&amp;AMP" WITH "&amp;" IN YOUR CODE

Next

End Sub

I made adjustments for code so u can use this code also with CATScript. So you can download Visual Basic version of this CATIA macro or you can make your own with CATScript.

You can download it for free and use it.

If you have any issues feel free to contact me.

Check my YouTube channel for more cool videos CATIA Tutorials or section on this site for free macros.

10 thoughts on “Change name CATIA macro tutorial + free macro download”

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November 23, 2018 at 4:03 pm

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Mark
February 27, 2022 at 2:14 pm

Hello , thank you for the code , amazing work , but when i try to use it i get “FUNCTION OR INTERFACE MARKED AS RESTRICTED” error on the line “Status = Selection.SelectElement3(ElementsArray, “Select Elements for name change”, False, CATMultiSelectionMode.CATMultiSelTriggWhenUserValidatesSelection, False)”
Can you help me with that ?
- HarunPost author
  March 15, 2022 at 4:31 pm
  
  Hello, can you maybe send the video of the problem and the macro code, so i can test it, on my mail.
  musciharun@hotmail.com
Joseph
May 7, 2022 at 3:35 pm

Hi, thanks for the macro. It would save me a ton of time!
I need the marco to add a three digit number with leading zeroes and without the dash.
For example Line001, Line002 exc.
It was easy to remove the “__” from the code, but i can’t manage to change the text format to three leading digits
Can you help me out?

Thanks
- HarunPost author
  May 17, 2022 at 10:10 am
  
  Hello Joseph, sry for late answer.
  The esiest way i can think of is like this.
  You have the loop cpunter (i or any other).
  You can put like this if i<10 then name is = "00" & i
  if i < 100 then name id "0" & i I hope this can help you.
Hoan
October 7, 2023 at 4:54 am

Please show me how to write macros to replace names in a part.
12345-AA001-01 12345-AA002-01
12345-AA001-02 12345-AA002-02
12345-AA001-03 12345-AA002-03
12345-AA001-04 12345-AA002-04
12345-AA001-05 12345-AA002-05
12345-AA001-06 12345-AA002-06
hoan
October 7, 2023 at 8:31 am

Please help me replace the body name in a part.

ex

123_AA1_245 -> 123_AB1_245
123_AA1_246 -> 123_AB1_246
123_AA1_247 -> 123_AB1_247
123_AA1_248 -> 123_AB1_248
- HarunPost author
  November 21, 2023 at 5:21 am
  
  Hello,
  I don’t know, how is this complex, if it’s simple like you write,
  
  You don’t need to replace it, just rename it.
  
  So you go like
  
  Make selection, than create for loop to rename these bodies, use counter to go from 1 to..
  
  I hope this helps
  - HarunPost author
    November 21, 2023 at 5:21 am
    
    Hello,
    I don’t know, how is this complex, if it’s simple like you write,
    
    You don’t need to replace it, just rename it.
    
    So you go like
    
    Make selection, than create for loop to rename these bodies, use counter to go from 1 to..
    
    I hope this helps