VBA macro to open referenced document of the drawing view
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This VBA macro performs similar operation to Open assembly command on the selected SOLIDWORKS drawing view, but also activates the referenced display state associated with the drawing view.
Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Dim swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2 Sub main() Set swApp = Application.SldWorks Set swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc If Not swModel Is Nothing Then Dim swSelMgr As SldWorks.SelectionMgr Set swSelMgr = swModel.SelectionManager Dim swView As SldWorks.View Set swView = swSelMgr.GetSelectedObject6(1, -1) If Not swView Is Nothing Then Dim swRefDoc As SldWorks.ModelDoc2 Set swRefDoc = swView.ReferencedDocument If swRefDoc Is Nothing Then Err.Raise vbError, "", "Drawing view model is not loaded" End If swRefDoc.ShowConfiguration2 swView.ReferencedConfiguration Dim swConf As SldWorks.Configuration Set swConf = swRefDoc.GetConfigurationByName(swView.ReferencedConfiguration) swConf.ApplyDisplayState swView.DisplayState swRefDoc.Visible = True Else Err.Raise vbError, "", "Select drawing view" End If Else Err.Raise vbError, "", "No active documents" End If End Sub