Change parameter CATIA macro

October 23, 2018February 22, 2020 Harun 6 Comments

Change parameter CATIA macro

“Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.”

Sebastian Thrun

Introduction

First of all, in this post we want to write about the connection between CATIA macro and parameters in the tree. So there are a lot of options in this direction. One of the possibilities is to have full control of your model with macro. Here we want to demonstrate some basic, but you will get the idea.

Certainly fill stock-list parameters with CATIA macro is our focus. Why talk about this subject “change parameter CATIA macro”? So every model has some kind of stock-list. You need to fill those parameters every time. Rather there are a lot of parts with the same parameters. Also when you work as a team, you need to have same parameters for the same parts. For example, on trim dies, you have trim steels, and a lot of colleges will have them too. Hence best practice is to set those same parameters on all dies.

It is a perfect time to use the macro for this action. So let’s write some code for change parameter CATIA macro.

Writing macro code

This is just a basic idea, so you can do a lot more. Our code will fill just a few parameters, like material, info and example for dimension. We have in the tree three parameters with names: Material, Info and Dimension. Consequently, we want to set values for these three parameters.

Language="VBSCRIPT"
Sub CATMain()

'This macro will work only in part
Dim partDocument1 As Document
Set partDocument1 = CATIA.ActiveDocument
Dim part1 As Part
Set part1 = partDocument1.Part

'We must to declare parameters
Dim parameters1 As Parameters
Set parameters1 = part1.Parameters

'Our first parameter is Material
Dim strParam1 As Parameter
Set strParam1 = parameters1.Item("Material")

'Value for material is "1.2358" you can put any material here
strParam1.Value = "1.2358"

'Second parameter
Dim parameters2 As Parameters
Set parameters2 = part1.Parameters
Dim strParam2 As Parameter
Set strParam2 = parameters2.Item("Part1\Info")
strParam2.Value = "H 60+2 HRC"

Dim parameters3 As Parameters
Set parameters3 = part1.Parameters
Dim strParam3 As Parameter
Set strParam3 = parameters3.Item("Part1\Dimension")
'For dimension we just make profile input
strParam3.Value = "XX x XX x XX"

End Sub

Furthermore, this macro will only fill these parameters if they exist.

This part of code will make new string parameter and and value “Text”

Even more, see the video for more info.

As you can see in the video we demonstrated application with these basic macros. Therefore this application is very useful and saves a lot of time. It solves problems with a different profiles of parameters in every part and model. So if you are interested to buy this part of the app please contact us.

Check my other tutorials https://catiavbmacro.com/category/tutorials/, download some free macros https://catiavbmacro.com/category/free-macros/.

6 thoughts on “Change parameter CATIA macro”

user
March 28, 2019 at 4:39 pm

Not working catia v5 r19
- HarunPost author
  March 29, 2019 at 8:34 am
  
  Hello, what macro did you try?
  There is huge possibility that some doesnt work on older versions. I test all macros in v5R26.
  
  Can you tell me what did u try so i can check it?
  
  Try color palate, that one must work.
  
  All the best
vedant
October 19, 2019 at 10:39 am

Hi, can help me to find gap between two parts or two cast part??
for example, if we take shoe and cam in die design, if there is no clash between them but they have o mm or very less gap(5mm to 20mm) between them.

regards,
- HarunPost author
  October 19, 2019 at 1:59 pm
  
  Hello, easiest way to find it is with clearance option in clash. More advanced option is with Edit Distance and Band Analysis tool.Second one is perfect option for your needs, it will find anything between two parts.
Carlos Romero
March 15, 2022 at 4:14 pm

How change name for set parameter with macro??
- HarunPost author
  March 15, 2022 at 4:30 pm
  
  Hello, chech this macro and code
  https://catiavbmacro.com/2018/08/12/change-name-catia-macro/