SolidEdge COM Object

[blackman12]

Hi to all,

I try to make an automation script for my SolidEdge Drafts, But I have a problem when I try to get objects.

Explaining in basic,

The code at below returns as an Object and It creates a draft.

$de = ObjCreate("SolidEdge.DraftDocument")
MsgBox(0,"",VarGetType($de))

But in this, it's a string, so I cant do anything on existing and opened draft.

$de = ObjGet("","SolidEdge.DraftDocument")
MsgBox(0,"",VarGetType($de))

Whats the problem about the ObjGet?

On the other hand, the VB6 codes in Excel works healthy, and I can get info from Table in exist Draft

Set objApp = GetObject(, "SolidEdge.Application")
Set objDoc = objApp.ActiveDocument
Set objTables = objDoc.Tables
Set objTable = objTables.Item(1)
Set objTitles = objTable.Titles
Set objTitle = objTitles.Item(1)
Set objColumns = objTable.Columns
Set objColumn = objColumns.Item(1)

Could you help me about that, what the problem or where do I do wrong?

 

Thank you,

[ahmet]

You should check for error after ObjGet like this

$de = ObjGet("","SolidEdge.DraftDocument")
If @error Then MsgBox(0,"Error from ObjGet","Error code:" & @error)

Next your example from Excel uses GetObject(, "SolidEdge.Application") and the one from within AutoIt uses "SolidEdge.DraftDocument".

[blackman12]

Thank you Ahmet,

I tried also "SolidEdge.Application" it is same. and the error value is also same and it is "-2147352570" I dont know what does it mean

If you have an experience about the solidedge could you give me help?

[Danp2]

That's 0x80020006 in hex. Search the forum for prior discussions.

[blackman12]

😕 Unfortunately, there is no info meaningly.

[water]

0x80020006 stands for DISP_E_UNKNOWNNAME - unknown name as described here: https://www.hresult.info/FACILITY_DISPATCH/0x80020006

[water]

Seems as this document provides some neeeded information: https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/zh_cn/Images/Solid_Edge_API_tcm78-125829.pdf (starting with pge 27).

I think the first statements should be:

#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>
Global $oApp = ObjGet("", "SolidEdgeFramework.Application") ; Connects to an already running instance of the framework
If @error Then
    $oApp = ObjCreate(""SolidEdgeFramework.Application") ; Starts up the framework
    If @error Or Not IsObj($oApp) Then Exit MsgBox($MB_ICONERROR, "Could not start the SolidEdgeFramework!" & @CRLF & _
      "@error=" & @error & "@extended=" & @extended)
 EndIf

 

[blackman12]

Actually, I think It's not right, but I tried your script. Its same error message. It's not right because I use OleView.Net and in RO Table I can see the SolidEdge.DraftDocument and SolidEdge.Application but there is no SolidEdgeFramework.Application. 

Additionally when I use the ObjCreate with Solidedge.DraftDocument, it creates a Draft with "Untitled" name. Its related with ObjGet. 

[water]

Here you find a lot of Visual basic examples - should be easy to translate them to autoIt: https://github.com/SolidEdgeCommunity/Samples

BTW: I know nothing about SolidEdge, just a little bit about COM and Autoit coding.

[LarsJ]

If you can create the objects in VB6, you can probably also create the objects in VBScript. Since we through the use of ROT objects have a virtually complete integration of VBScript and AutoIt code, you can in all probability use the techniques as described in this post to create the objects in VBScript and then pass them to AutoIt through a ROT object.

[blackman12]

I tried but it was not successfull unfortuntaly.

By the way, I discovered a point about the Excel VBA.

For using the object in Excel, you must add "references" from tools menu. The references are *.TLB files. How can I import them to my script?

Or many user who wrote script for SolidEdge, use the Interop.Solidedge tool. But How can I use it on my autoit script. I dont know.

Can you find a way to use one of them?