Solidworks VBA Macro - Get Total View count in Drawing

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Objective

In this article, we understand “how to” Get Total View count in Drawing in Drawing document from VBA macro.

This is most updated method of Get Total View count in Drawing in an drawing document.

Results We Can Get

Below image shows the result we get.

We Get Total View count in Drawing in simple manners.

There are no extra steps required.

To get the correct result, please follow the steps correctly.

Macro Video

Below 🎬 video shows how to Get Total View count in Drawing from SOLIDWORKS VBA Macros.

Above video is just for visualization and there is no explanation.

I have explained every line in this article.

It is advisable to watch video, since it helps you to better understand the process.

VBA Macro

Below is the VBA macro for Get Total View count in Drawing.

                        Option Explicit

' Creating variable for Solidworks application
Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks

' Creating variable for Solidworks document
Dim swDoc As SldWorks.ModelDoc2

' Creating variable for Solidworks Drawing
Dim swDrawing As SldWorks.DrawingDoc

' Program to Get Total View count in Drawing
Sub main()

  ' Setting Solidworks variable to Solidworks application
  Set swApp = Application.SldWorks
  
  ' Set Solidworks document variable to currently opened document
  Set swDoc = swApp.ActiveDoc
  
  ' Check if Solidworks document is opened or not
  If swDoc Is Nothing Then
    MsgBox "Solidworks document is not opened."
    Exit Sub
  End If
  
  ' Set Solidworks Drawing document variable
  Set swDrawing = swDoc
  
  ' Print View's Count
  Debug.Print "Sheet + Views: " & swDrawing.GetViewCount

End Sub

                      

Prerequisite

There are some prerequisites for this article.

Knowledge of VBA programming language is ❗required.
There are 2 sheets in drawing.
Each sheet has some views.
We did not select anything in the drawing.

We will apply checks in this article, so the code we write, should be error free mostly.

Steps To Follow

This VBA macro can be divided into following sections:

Create Global Variables
Initialize Variables
Get Total View count in Drawing

Every section with each line is explained below.

I also give some links (see icon 🚀) so that you can go through them if there are anything I explained in previous articles.

Create Global Variables

In this section, we create global variables.

Option Explicit

Purpose: Above line forces us to define every variable we are going to use.
Reference: 🚀 SOLIDWORKS Macros - Open new Part document article.

                        ' Variable for Solidworks application
Dim swApp As SldWorks.SldWorks

Purpose: In above line, we create a variable for Solidworks application.
Variable Name: swApp
Type: SldWorks.SldWorks
Reference: Please visit 🚀 online SOLIDWORKS API Help.

                        ' Variable for Solidworks document
Dim swDoc As SldWorks.ModelDoc2

Purpose: In above line, we create a variable for Solidworks document.
Variable Name: swDoc
Type: SldWorks.ModelDoc2
Reference: Please visit 🚀 online SOLIDWORKS API Help.

                        ' Creating variable for Solidworks Drawing
Dim swDrawing As SldWorks.DrawingDoc

Purpose: In above line, we create a variable for Solidworks Drawing.
Variable Name: swDrawing
Type: SldWorks.DrawingDoc
Reference: Please visit 🚀 online SOLIDWORKS API Help.

These all are our global variables.

They are SOLIDWORKS API Objects.

                        ' Program to Get Total View count in Drawing
Sub main()

End Sub

In above line, we create Program to Get Total View count in Drawing.
This is a Sub procedure which has name of main.
This procedure hold all the statements (instructions) we give to computer.
Reference: Detailed information 🚀 VBA Sub and Function Procedures article of this website.

Initialize Variables

In this section, we initialize Variables.

                        ' Set Solidworks Application variable to current application
Set swApp = Application.SldWorks

In above line, we set value of swApp variable.
This value is currently opened Solidworks application.

                        ' Set Solidworks document variable to currently opened document
Set swDoc = swApp.ActiveDoc

In above line, we set value of swDoc variable.
This value is currently opened part document.

                        ' Check if Solidworks document is opened or not
If swDoc Is Nothing Then
  MsgBox ("Solidworks document is not opened.")
  Exit Sub
End If

                      

In above code block, we check if we successfully set the value of swDoc variable.
We use 🚀 IF statement for checking.
Condition: swDoc Is Nothing
When this condition is True,
- We show and 🚀 message window to user.
- Message: SOLIDWORKS document is not opened.
- Then we stop our macro here.

                        ' Set Solidworks Drawing document
Set swDrawing = swDoc

In above line, we set value of swDrawing variable.
This value is swDoc variable.

Get Total View count in Drawing

In this section, we Get Total View count in Drawing.

                        ' Print View's Count
Debug.Print "Sheet + Views: " & swDrawing.GetViewCount

In above line, we Print Total View’s count in Immediate Window.
We get this count by GetViewCount method.
This GetViewCount method is part of swDrawing variable.
This GetViewCount method did not take any parameters.
View count included sheet as first element.
If Immediate Window is not available then press “Ctrl + G”.

Now we run the macro and after running macro we get total view count as shown in below image.

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