Hi,

Hope somebody can help me with this problem:

I have a Macro running that I found online to update te design tables of multiple parts in an assembly. Which works great to drive an assembly from an external Excel file.

In a few of the sub-assemblies there are also a few Equations driven from the design tables, which should ideally be updated when te design tables are updated.

I noticed just opening the Equation Manager by hand does the job, but I thought a smarter and quicker way to do it would be to incorporate the opening and closing of the Equation Manager (i.e. updating) in the running Macro just after the opening and closing of the Design Table in that particular part. I just don't know how..

Any ideas? Thanks a lot in advance!

This is the Macro code:

Sub DesTblUpdate()

Dim swDoc As SldWorks.ModelDoc2

Dim swDocXt As SldWorks.ModelDocExtension

Dim DesTbl As SldWorks.DesignTable

Dim swAllDocs As EnumDocuments2

Dim FirstDoc As SldWorks.ModelDoc2

Dim dummy As Boolean

Dim NumDocsReturned As Long

Dim DocCount As Long

Dim DesTblCount As Long

Dim i As Long

Dim DoTheUpdate As Long

Dim sMsg As String

Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks

Dim bDocWasVisible As Boolean

Set swApp = Application.SldWorks

Set swAllDocs = swApp.EnumDocuments2

Set FirstDoc = swApp.ActiveDoc

DocCount = 0

DesTblCount = 0

swAllDocs.Next 1, swDoc, NumDocsReturned

While NumDocsReturned <> 0

    Set swDocXt = swDoc.Extension

    If swDocXt.HasDesignTable Then

        DesTblCount = DesTblCount + 1

    End If

    swAllDocs.Next 1, swDoc, NumDocsReturned

    DocCount = DocCount + 1

Wend

sMsg = DocCount & " Documents, " & DesTblCount & " of which had design tables"

sMsg = sMsg & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & "Do you want to update all these tables?"

DoTheUpdate = MsgBox(sMsg, vbYesNo, "Update Design Tables?")

If DoTheUpdate = vbNo Then

    Exit Sub

End If

DocCount = 0

DesTblCount = 0

swAllDocs.Reset

swAllDocs.Next 1, swDoc, NumDocsReturned

While NumDocsReturned <> 0

    Set swDocXt = swDoc.Extension

    If swDocXt.HasDesignTable Then

        DesTblCount = DesTblCount + 1

        bDocWasVisible = swDoc.Visible

        swApp.ActivateDoc swDoc.GetPathName

        Set DesTbl = swDoc.GetDesignTable

        dummy = DesTbl.Attach

        dummy = DesTbl.UpdateTable(swDesignTableUpdateOptions_e.swUpdateDesignTableAll, True)

        DesTbl.Detach

        swDoc.Visible = bDocWasVisible

    End If

    swAllDocs.Next 1, swDoc, NumDocsReturned

    DocCount = DocCount + 1

Wend

swApp.ActivateDoc FirstDoc.GetPathName

End Sub