DeleteScene Method (IModelDocExtension)

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gerard
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DeleteScene Method (IModelDocExtension)

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All,

I'm tweaking my clean up utility to be able to unfiy the scene settings in my parts/assemblies.

Doing some spelunking I've come across the DelecteScene function: https://help.solidworks.com/2017/Englis ... Scene.html

To be kind, documentation is kinda sparse.

Has anyone gotten this to work? More importantly has anyone gotten this to work under VBA?

Thanks
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JSculley
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Re: DeleteScene Method (IModelDocExtension)

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It pretty much works as advertised. Here's a before:
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Here's some code:

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Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks
Dim mDoc As ModelDoc2
Dim mExt As ModelDocExtension
Sub main()
    Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
    Set mDoc = swApp.ActiveDoc
    Set mExt = mDoc.Extension
    mExt.DeleteScene
End Sub
And here's the after:
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Re: DeleteScene Method (IModelDocExtension)

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It works for me when I run my code, but I had to test a few things to make sure I knew what was going on.

You can delete a scene, however there needs to be a scene applied to the part so SW re-applies the default theme. This is why it doesn't appear that the scene is deleted from the feature tree.
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Re: DeleteScene Method (IModelDocExtension)

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JSculley wrote: Wed Feb 15, 2023 7:45 am It pretty much works as advertised. Here's a before:
image.png

Here's some code:

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Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks
Dim mDoc As ModelDoc2
Dim mExt As ModelDocExtension
Sub main()
    Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
    Set mDoc = swApp.ActiveDoc
    Set mExt = mDoc.Extension
    mExt.DeleteScene
End Sub
And here's the after:
image.png
Works perfectly.

Thank you
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