I am in need of programmatically showing the Display dimensions of a specific feature in a Part Document.

I have tried using selectbyid2,  ISelectionManager.AddSelectionListObject, ISelectionManager.AddSelectionListObjects,

All of the above select the feature, but the feature dimensions do not display the same way if i select it in the Feature Tree.

The features i am trying to Select Programmatically have No Faces.

They are MacroFeatures

They have Display Dimensions

See the attached screenshots.

The Code to do this is:

Sub SelectParentFeature(ByVal ModDoc As ModelDoc2)

        If IsNothing(ModDoc) = False Then

            Dim SelMgr As SelectionMgr = ModDoc.SelectionManager

            Dim SelCt As Integer = SelMgr.GetSelectedObjectCount2(-1)

            If SelCt = 1 Then

                Dim SelFeat As Feature = Nothing

                Select Case SelMgr.GetSelectedObjectType3(1, -1)

                    Case swSelectType_e.swSelFACES

                        Dim ThisFace As Face2 = SelMgr.GetSelectedObject6(1, -1)

                        If IsNothing(ThisFace) = False Then

                            SelFeat = ThisFace.GetFeature

                        End If

                        ThisFace = Nothing

                    Case swSelectType_e.swSelBODYFEATURES

                        SelFeat = SelMgr.GetSelectedObject6(1, -1)

                End Select

                If IsNothing(SelFeat) = False Then

                        'Get the Parent Feature (Owner Feature)

                         Dim ParFeat As Feature = SelFeat.GetOwnerFeature

                         If IsNothing(ParFeat) = False Then

                             ModDoc.Extension.SelectByID2(ParFeat.Name, "BODYFEATURE", 0, 0, 0, False, -1, Nothing, swSelectOption_e.swSelectOptionDefault)

                             ParFeat = Nothing

                         End If

                         SelData = Nothing

                         SelFeat = Nothing

                     End If

                SelMgr = Nothing

            End If

        End If

    End Sub

All this Sub Does is gets the Selected feature by either SwSelecttype_e.SwSelBodyFeatures or SwSelType_e.SwSelFaces.

then it gets the Owner Feature which is the Feature i want to Show the DisplayDimensions of.

i have tried getting all of the IDisplayDimensions using IFeature.GetFirstDisplayDimension and getting the Annotation from The IDisplayDimension using IDisplayDimension.GetAnnotation

Then Setting the IAnnotation.Visibility to SwAnnotationVisibility_e.swAnnotationVisible which does nothing.

I can make an IAnnotationView and show that but i dont like doing that because it would involve making a new one every time. you cannot name them so getting a special annotationview and clearing the IAnnotations from it seems like too much work. if i have to, i will though.

But i would like to see if there is an easier route.

Thanks

So Basically all i want to do is show the displayDimensions of a feature without having to select anything.

So Like IFeature.ShowDimensions would be sweet, or something to Achieve this goal