Using a macro change all pages to have the same CustomPropertyView View #.

     Alright, I've looked everywhere and I can't seem to find a true answer, if there even is one.

     I have a macro that will traverse all my drawing sheets and update my drawing sheets and this works fine.  While updating the sheets, I also want all sheets to have the same custompropertview View #, which just so happens to be on page #1.  Currently I can get page 1 to set to the view on page 1 (Ex: Drawing View1).  The problem is that I can't get Drawing View1 to be set for Page 2 and more because Drawing View 1 only exists on Page 1.

     The manual solution is to go to each page, right click, go to properties and in "Use custom property values from model shown in:" drop down select Drawing View 1.

     I can't rely on "Default" as the property to use because not all drawings have started on page 1 hence "Default" doesn't always represent Drawing View 1.

     I currently have Solidworks 2015 SP 2.0 installed.

Here is my code:

    Dim swView                      As SldWorks.View

    Dim bRet                          As Boolean

    Dim vSheetNames           As Variant

    Dim Fsheet                      As sheet

    Dim Osheet                      As String

    Dim Name                        As String

    Dim vSheetProps             As Variant

   

    Set swApp = Application.SldWorks

    Set swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc

    Set swDraw = swModel

    Set swSheet = swDraw.GetCurrentSheet

   

    'get list of sheet names

    vSheetNames = swDraw.GetSheetNames

    'get current sheet name

    Osheet = swSheet.GetName

    'Go to First Sheet

    bRet = swDraw.ActivateSheet(vSheetNames(0))

    Debug.Print "First Sheet " & vSheetNames(0)

    'Get First Sheet View Name

    Set swView = swDraw.GetFirstView

    Set swView = swView.GetNextView

    Name = swView.GetName2

    Debug.Print "First View " & Name

    'Set sheet custom property name to view

    Set swSheet = swDraw.GetCurrentSheet

    swSheet.CustomPropertyView = Name

   

    'Traverse all sheets and change view property

    For i = 0 To UBound(vSheetNames)

        Debug.Print "********************************"

        bRet = swDraw.ActivateSheet(vSheetNames(i))

        Debug.Print "Sheet " & vSheetNames(i) & " before - view " & Name

        Set swSheet = swDraw.GetCurrentSheet

        'Place "Default" to change all the pages to be default view, which didn't work correctly.

        'Name = "Default"

        swSheet.CustomPropertyView = Name

        Debug.Print "Sheet " & vSheetNames(i) & " after - view " & swSheet.CustomPropertyView

    Next i

    'Go Back to original sheet

    bRet = swDraw.ActivateSheet(Osheet)

End Sub

SolidworksApi macros