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Solidwork API Programming: The centerline macro updated!! Run with macro button~

The centerline macro updated!!

I didn't expect I can play with solidworks API programming again but it is actually interesting stuff. So the centerline macro code I wrote a long time ago was reviewed and I decided to modify just a single line. It makes a difference. The code was updated and accordingly the post updated as well. You can copy and paste and try to run referring to previous post.


The problem of previous code was the centerline can be made only on the rectangular face. Just simple change can make the target face to any polygon with an even number of edges. 

 Here are changes:

...

For i = 0 To nEdgeCount / 2 - 1
    Set swSketchSeg = pModel.CreateLine2( _
        vMidPts(i * 3 + 0), vMidPts(i * 3 + 1), 0, _
        vMidPts(i * 3 + nEdgeCount * 3 / 2), vMidPts(i * 3 + nEdgeCount * 3 / 2 + 1), 0)
    swSketchSeg.ConstructionGeometry = True
    Debug.Print "vMidPts-from (" & i & ") = " & _
         Format$(vMidPts(i * 3 + 0) * 1000#, "0.0000") & "," & _
         Format$(vMidPts(i * 3 + 1) * 1000#, "0.0000") & " mm"
    Debug.Print "vMidPts-to   (" & i & ") = " & _
         Format$(vMidPts(i * 3 + nEdgeCount * 3 / 2) * 1000#, "0.0000") & "," & _
         Format$(vMidPts(i * 3 + nEdgeCount * 3 / 2 + 1) * 1000#, "0.0000") & " mm"
Next i

...

The red line above was updated from:
vMidPts(i * 3 + 6), vMidPts(i * 3 + 7), 0)

vMidPts is an array to store midpoint location data of edges of the face you selected. I was able to generalize this macro function by replacing hard number with half edge count. The hard number 6 works only on rectangle because 3*4/2=6, where the number of xyz coordinate is 3 and the edge count of rectangle is 4. 



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