SelectById / SelectById2 (sw2004/sw2006 diff?)

Appologies in advance if this is outdated...but I could find no
postings of this 'issue'. I suspect it may exist with 2007 also
(confirmation?).

Been asked to look into migration issues from current SW 2004 base into

SW 2006.

Several of the designers are complaining that 2006 does not seem to
have
the same cutting-along-a-surface abilities of 2004.

For example, take a surface, Put a bunch of pins through it, then use
the CUT-Extrude feature to cut off the pins above (or below) the
surface
en masse.

When I looked at the VBS generated by SW, it seems that 2004 is using a

SelectById call whereas 2006 is using a SelectById2 call. I wonder if
this has anything to do with the problem.

At any rate, has anyone experienced this problem? More importantly, is
there any solution to this? (Am I missing something terribly
obvious?!?)

Thanks in advance.

 

SelectByID2 is just an updated version of the prior SelectById. That is
nothing to be concerned about. I would like to see an example of the
problem with cut-extrude.

 

For example, take a surface, Put a bunch of pins through it, then use

I guess you are looking for Insert -> Cut -> With Surface? That has been
along since I remember, and works still well AFAIK.

-h-

 

Sorry. I made a mistake. Apparently the function in question does seem
to work with both versions. My mistake.

However, when I record a macro to do this, it is unable to do it. That
is to say, only manually can I cut some particular part of a planar
extrusion.

--------snip-------------
Sub main()

Set swApp = Application.SldWorks

' get the part --prepared with waiting extrusion positioned through
planar surface
Set Part = swApp.OpenDoc6("E:\111\Assem1.SLDASM", 2, 0, "", longstatus,
longwarnings)
Set Part = swApp.ActivateDoc2("Assem1", False, longstatus)
swApp.ActiveDoc.ActiveView.FrameLeft = 0
swApp.ActiveDoc.ActiveView.FrameState = 1
' change to shaded view
Part.ViewDisplayShaded
'select the extruding part
boolstatus = Part.Extension.SelectByID2("", "FACE", 0.03690434001857,
0.02652088599496, -0.03610309674377, False, 0, Nothing, 0)
Part.EditPart
Part.ClearSelection2 True
' select the planar surface the extruding part extrudes/passes through
boolstatus = Part.Extension.SelectByID2("HCM145-2@Assem1", "COMPONENT",
0.04670531419703, 0.0414445816848, -0.001999999999896, True, 0,
Nothing, 0)
' chop part of it off
Part.InsertCavity4 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, -1
' rebuild the project
boolstatus = Part.EditRebuild3
Part.ClearSelection2 True
Part.ViewDisplayShaded
Part.ShowNamedView2 "*Isometric", 7
Part.EditAssembly
End Sub
--------snip-------------

Any ideas why SW only seems to work manually in this case?