Hello CATIA Community,

We try to get the "Link to Reference" properties (the CATIA Part/Product file path) and the Instance name property via CATIA VBA API when this CATIA Part/Product is not loaded in the CATIA (it is a broken link)

When this child CATIA Part/CATIA Product object is loaded we can easily do it in the following way:

Set cad = catia.ActiveDocument
Set childProds = cad.product.Products

Dim childProd As product
Set childProd = childProds.Item(1)

Dim instanceName As String
Dim filePath As String
instanceName = childProd.name
filePath = childProd.ReferenceProduct.Parent.fullName

or with the StiEngine API:

Dim catEngine As StiEngine
Set catEngine = catia.GetItem("CAIEngine")

Dim product As ProductDocument
Set product = GetActiveProductDocument()

Dim rootItem As StiDBItem
Set rootItem = catEngine.GetStiDBItemFromAnyObject(product)

Dim childs As StiDBChildren
Set childs = rootItem.GetChildren

Dim curChild As StiDBItem
Set curChild = childs.Item(1)

Dim filePath As String
filePath = curChild.GetDocumentFullPath()

Dim obj As Object
Set obj = curChild.GetDocument()

Dim refProd As product
Set refProd = obj.product.ReferenceProduct

Dim instanceName As String
Set cad = catia.ActiveDocument
Set childProds = cad.product.Products
Dim childProd As product

For i = 1 To childProds.count
   Set childProd = childProds.Item(i)
   If (childProd.ReferenceProduct Is refProd) Then
   instanceName = childProd.name
   Exit For
   End If
Next i

But when this child CATIA Part/CATIA Product object is NOT loaded:

• In the first approach the childProd.ReferenceProduct property doesn't work;
• In the second appoach the curChild.GetDocument() method doesn't work.

Could you please help us to find a solution?