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DerivedPartComponents Object


Description

The DerivedPartComponents collection object provides access to all of the existing objects in a part and provides methods to create additional derived components.

Methods

Name Description
Add Method that creates a new DerivedPartDefinition using the information supplied by the input DerivedPartDefinition object. If successful, the new DerivedPartComponent is returned.
CreateCoordinateSystemDef Method that creates a new DerivedPartCoordinateSystemDef object.
CreateTransformDef Method that creates a new DerivedPartTransformDef object.
CreateUniformScaleDef Method that creates a new DerivedPartUniformScaleDef object.

Properties

Name Description
Application Returns the top-level parent application object. When used the context of Inventor, an Application object is returned. When used in the context of Apprentice, an ApprenticeServer object is returned.
Count Property that returns the number of items in the collection.
Item Returns the specified DerivedPartComponent object from the collection.
Parent Property that returns the parent ComponentDefinition object.
Type Returns an ObjectTypeEnum indicating this object's type.

Accessed From

ReferenceComponents.DerivedPartComponents

Samples

Name Description
Derived Parts and Assemblies This sample demonstrates the use of the API to create derived parts and assemblies.

Version

Introduced in version 5.3

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