VBA macro to open referenced document of the drawing view
This VBA macro performs similar operation to Open assembly command on the selected SOLIDWORKS drawing view, but also activates the referenced display state associated with the drawing view.
Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks
Dim swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2
Sub main()
Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
Set swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc
If Not swModel Is Nothing Then
Dim swSelMgr As SldWorks.SelectionMgr
Set swSelMgr = swModel.SelectionManager
Dim swView As SldWorks.View
Set swView = swSelMgr.GetSelectedObject6(1, -1)
If Not swView Is Nothing Then
Dim swRefDoc As SldWorks.ModelDoc2
Set swRefDoc = swView.ReferencedDocument
If swRefDoc Is Nothing Then
Err.Raise vbError, "", "Drawing view model is not loaded"
End If
swRefDoc.ShowConfiguration2 swView.ReferencedConfiguration
Dim swConf As SldWorks.Configuration
Set swConf = swRefDoc.GetConfigurationByName(swView.ReferencedConfiguration)
swConf.ApplyDisplayState swView.DisplayState
swRefDoc.Visible = True
Else
Err.Raise vbError, "", "Select drawing view"
End If
Else
Err.Raise vbError, "", "No active documents"
End If
End Sub