API: Insert Explode View

Ok I have been messing with this I am trying to add explode steps and it
works fine if the explode view object is allready setup but
Configuration::AddExplodeStep won't add the explode view. SW 2004 sp4.2

 

I've been looking into this in the hopes of helping you find an answer.
I only find more questions.

How is the direction defined? This is not part of the
AddExplodeStepAPI (2003)

How can one edit an explode step? The ExplodeStep object has no
methods for changing parameters.

Vexing.

 

retval = Configuration.AddExplodeStep (explDist, reverseDir,
rigidSubassembly, explodeRelated)
reverseDir is how you define the direction you also have to have your
selection marks correct first you have to have to select your reference
entity which will define the direction. The only problem I have with this
is with the exception of flat surfaces you don't have a good reference as to
which direction you are exploding.

Does anyone know any API for displaying the temporary direction arrows using
a vector or something for realtime feadbac?

You are right it seems that to do a simple edit to an explode step you would
have to get it's parameters delete it and create a new one all together.
Quite cumbersome if you just want to change the direction or add another
component.

Corey

 

I know that there is a parameter for flipping the direction, but I
can't see how to determine what that direction actually is. What if
one wanted to explode along a specific vector, such as defined by an
axis or face or edge? The SW interface REQUIRES this information, yet
there is no place in the API to provide it.

 

I thought that might have been what you were getting at that is why I said

"The only problem I have with this
is with the exception of flat surfaces you don't have a good reference as to
which direction you are exploding.

Does anyone know any API for displaying the temporary direction arrows using
a vector or something for realtime feed back?"

Corey

 

I know that there is a parameter for flipping the direction, but I

I, too, am now interested. Since in other features, such as extrudes,
I have been unable to programatically change the vector. Also, in features
such as extrudes, when MANUALLY changing a direction vector, it automatically
propagates to ALL configurations....