Catia Sheet No. Title Blocks - vba

Question

I would like to get some VBA code which would tell me the number of sheets in a Catia drawing. Each sheet would have a title block placed on it. A text field on each title block would communicates the number of sheets. So if you had three sheets in the drawing you would have 1 of 3 (in the title block sheet 1) 2 of 3 (in the title block shhet 2) and 3 of 3 (in the title block sheet 3). If the macro could update all title blocks on all sheets automatically.
Any help much appreciated.

Answer 1

The concept is to loop through all of the DrawingSheet objects in the Sheets collection of the DrawingDocument you should put all title block elements in the "Background View". Next we need to update or create existing title block text elements. These are DrawingText objects. We try to access the DrawingText by name(THIS MUST BE UNIQUE!). If it does not exist, we create it. If it does exist, we update the value.
Here's a start to making your title block:
Option Explicit
Sub UpdateSheetPage()
Dim DrawingDoc As DrawingDocument
Dim DSheet As DrawingSheet
Dim DView As DrawingView
Dim SheetCount As Integer
Dim currentSheet As Integer
'the drawing must be the active docuement window or this will fail. you can do more error checking if needed
On Error GoTo ExitSub
Set DrawingDoc = CATIA.ActiveDocument
SheetCount = DrawingDoc.Sheets.Count
currentSheet = 1 'initialize sheet number
'loop through all sheets and update or create a sheet number
For Each DSheet In DrawingDoc.Sheets
UpdatePageNumber DSheet, currentSheet, SheetCount
currentSheet = currentSheet + 1
Next
ExitSub:
End Sub
Sub UpdatePageNumber(currentDrawingSheet As DrawingSheet, currentSheetNumber As Integer, totalSheets As Integer)
Dim sheetNumber As String
Dim xPos, yPos As Long 'mm
'edit these if needed
xPos = 100 'edit this - only use for new creation
yPos = 100 'edit this
'display format
sheetNumber = "Page " & currentSheetNumber & "/" & totalSheets
Dim backgroundView As DrawingView
Dim dTexts As DrawingTexts
Dim currentText As DrawingText
Set backgroundView = currentDrawingSheet.Views.Item("Background View")
Set dTexts = backgroundView.Texts
On Error GoTo CreateNew
Set currentText = dTexts.GetItem("SheetNumber")
currentText.Text = sheetNumber
Exit Sub
CreateNew:
Set currentText = dTexts.Add(sheetNumber, xPos, yPos)
currentText.Name = "SheetNumber" 'so we can access it later for an update
End Sub