Hello,

I'm trying to write a macro to make blocks independently.

The manual way: Explode the Block, select the sketch elements, create new block.

We need that often, so a button to "unlink" the Block would be nice. We need it, to make changes in sketch without affecting the other Blocks.

I have tried many ways. But no one will work.

1.) If i explode the Block, i dont know which elements are included.

2.) Create New Block with macro:

Dim swApp As Object
Dim Part As Object
Dim boolstatus As Boolean
Dim longstatus As Long, longwarnings As Long
Sub main()
Set swApp = _
Application.SldWorks
Set Part = swApp.ActiveDoc
Dim myModelView As Object
Set myModelView = Part.ActiveView
Dim skMgr As SketchManager
Set skMgr = Part.SketchManager
Dim vBlocks As Variant
vBlocks = skMgr.GetSketchBlockDefinitions
Dim pBlock As SketchBlockDefinition
skMgr.GetSketchBlockDefinitionCount
'Try only with the first Block
Set pBlock = vBlocks(0)
Debug.Print (pBlock.FileName)
'Use the first Instance
Dim BlockInst As SketchBlockInstance
Set BlockInst = pBlock.GetInstances(0)
Dim SK As Sketch
Set SK = pBlock.GetSketch
Dim Point As MathPoint
Set Point = BlockInst.InstancePosition
'Test1: Create New Block with Sketch from Block
'Dim Block As SketchBlockDefinition
'Set Block = skMgr.MakeSketchBlockFromSketch(Nothing, SK)
'Test2: Create New Block and Explode the old Block in the Block
BlockInst.Select False, Nothing
Dim Block As SketchBlockDefinition
Set Block = skMgr.MakeSketchBlockFromSelected(Point)
'Test2/1 Select BlockInstance and Explode
'Dim NewBlockInstance As SketchBlockInstance
'Set NewBlockInstance = Block.GetSketch.GetSketchBlockInstances(0) 'BlockInstance from Block in Block
'NewBlockInstance.Select False, Nothing
'skMgr.ExplodeSketchBlockInstance Nothing
'Same test with Parameter:
'skMgr.ExplodeSketchBlockInstance NewBlockInstance
'Test2/2 Same as Test2/1 with edit Block
Dim NewBlockInstance As SketchBlockInstance
Set NewBlockInstance = Block.GetSketch.GetSketchBlockInstances(0) 'BlockInstance from Block in Block
skMgr.EditSketchBlock
NewBlockInstance.Select False, Nothing
'skMgr.ExplodeSketchBlockInstance Nothing
'Same test with Parameter:
skMgr.ExplodeSketchBlockInstance NewBlockInstance
Part.SketchManager.EndEditSketchBlock True
End Sub

Test1: If i create the new Block with the Sketch from the other Block i get a new Block that contains all Blocks in Drawing. That is wrong. I dont know why.

Test2: I think this is a way that can function.
I Create a new Block wich contains the old Block. Than i only need to explode the nested Block. But i dont know how to explode that. In the Drawing view i can select the nested Block and can use Explode. But how can i do that with the api?

Or is there a other way to make this?

Regards,

Sascha