Macro for Changing a Design Variant

Double-clicking a design variant calls a macro specified as follows:

<FMVInfo MacroHicPath ="c"

MacroAddPath ="Bsp\Designvarianten"

MacroFileName ="Func_ModifyVariant.Mac"

MacroOsPath ="m:\Daten\Ztl\Bsp\

Designvarianten"/>

These entries can, of course, be combined with 'FeatName'.

The following macro changes the data of a variant:

FUNC delete activePart
FUNC Part activePart	Note the active part,
FUNC active-Part.StoreActive()	to be able to update it at the end.
rem variant feature
FUNC delete varFeat
FUNC VariantFeature varFeat	Object for a variant feature
FUNC varFeat.Init()	Initialisation with the variant feature from the last double click. You can also initialise the feature using a part and a feature ID: FUNC varFeat.Init(activePart, %id)
FUNC delete params
FUNC Variables params	Object for the parameter variables of the variant
FUNC var-Feat.GetParameters (params)	Get parameter variables of the variant
FUNC params.SetRealVar ("diameter", 30)	Change value of a variable.
FUNC var-Feat.SetParameters (params)	Write parameter variables back
	At this point, no data has been changed in HiCAD. Copies of the original data are used
FUNC var-Feat.Commit()	Transfer of the data to the HiCAD data Without the following update, you will now see, in the feature log, an * on the variant feature and the new data in the feature, as for changes without automatic recalculation.
rem update
FUNC active-Part.update()	Recalculating the part with the new data
FUNC delete active-Part
FUNC delete varFeat
FUNC delete params

The data in the FMV file are XML files. This means that the double quotation marks must not contain any arbitrary characters. In particular, they must not contain umlauts or '<'resp. '>'. There are replacement codes for these characters.

Design Variants