Get type of cylindrical face using SOLIDWORKS API
This macro identifies the type of the selected simple cylindrical face (through all hole, blind hole or external hole) based on the loops type using SOLIDWORKS API.
Macro will only work with cylindrical faces whose adjacent faces are planar faces and upper and lower boundaries of the cylinder are closed circular edges.
Algorithm
Macro traverses the loops of coedges of upper and lower boundary edges. If there is at least one internal loop that means that selected face is a hole, otherwise it is an external boss. If both of the boundary loops are internal that means that the hole is through all, if one boundary loop is external but other is internal that means that the selected face is a blind hole (i.e. not a through all hole).
Enum FaceType_e Outer BlindHole ThroughHole ContainsCutouts End Enum Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks Sub main() Set swApp = Application.SldWorks Dim swModel As SldWorks.ModelDoc2 Set swModel = swApp.ActiveDoc If Not swModel Is Nothing Then Dim swSelMgr As SldWorks.SelectionMgr Set swSelMgr = swModel.SelectionManager Set swSelMgr = swModel.SelectionManager Dim swFace As SldWorks.Face2 Set swFace = swSelMgr.GetSelectedObject6(1, -1) If Not swFace Is Nothing Then Dim swSurf As SldWorks.Surface Set swSurf = swFace.GetSurface If swSurf.IsCylinder() Then Dim faceType As FaceType_e faceType = GetCylindricalFaceType(swFace) Select Case faceType Case FaceType_e.BlindHole MsgBox "Selected face is a blind hole" Case FaceType_e.Outer MsgBox "Selected face is an outer face" Case FaceType_e.ThroughHole MsgBox "Selected face is through all hole" Case FaceType_e.ContainsCutouts MsgBox "Selected face contains cutouts" End Select Else MsgBox "Selected face is not cylindrical" End If Else MsgBox "Please select face" End If Else MsgBox "Please open the model" End If End Sub Function GetCylindricalFaceType(face As SldWorks.Face2) As FaceType_e Dim vEdges As Variant vEdges = face.GetEdges If UBound(vEdges) + 1 > 2 Then GetCylindricalFaceType = FaceType_e.ContainsCutouts ElseIf UBound(vEdges) + 1 = 2 Then Dim innerCount As Integer For i = 0 To UBound(vEdges) Dim swEdge As SldWorks.edge Set swEdge = vEdges(i) If HasInnerLoop(swEdge) Then innerCount = innerCount + 1 End If Next If innerCount = 0 Then GetCylindricalFaceType = FaceType_e.Outer ElseIf innerCount = 1 Then GetCylindricalFaceType = FaceType_e.BlindHole ElseIf innerCount = 2 Then GetCylindricalFaceType = FaceType_e.ThroughHole End If End If End Function Function HasInnerLoop(edge As SldWorks.edge) As Boolean Dim vCoEdges As Variant vCoEdges = edge.GetCoEdges HasInnerLoop = False Dim i As Integer For i = 0 To UBound(vCoEdges) Dim swCoEdge As SldWorks.CoEdge Set swCoEdge = vCoEdges(i) Dim swLoop As SldWorks.Loop2 Set swLoop = swCoEdge.GetLoop() If False = swLoop.IsOuter() Then HasInnerLoop = True End If Next End Function