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ProfileEntity Object


Description

The ProfileEntity object represents a curve within a profile path.

Methods

Name Description
GetReferenceKey Method that generates and returns the reference key for this entity.

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.
AttributeSets Property that returns the AttributeSets collection object associated with this object.
Curve Property that returns the geometry of the entity. The geometry is returned such that the entities are connected in a head-to-tail fashion.
CurveType Property that returns the type of the curve referenced by the profile entity. This property allows you to determine what type of object will be returned by the Curve property.
EndSketchPoint Property that returns the that defines the end of the profile entity. This property is not valid in the case where the curve is a periodic curve, i.e. circle, ellipse, etc.
OpposedToSketchEntity Property that returns a Boolean indicating if the parametric flow of the profile entity is in the same direction as the sketch entity it was derived from.
Parent Property that returns the parent ProfilePath of the entity.
SketchEntity Property that returns the sketch entity this profile entity was derived from.
StartSketchPoint Property that gets the that defines the start of the profile entity. This property is not valid in the case where the curve is a periodic curve, i.e. circle, ellipse, etc.
Type Returns an ObjectTypeEnum indicating this object's type.

Accessed From

ProfileEntityProxy.NativeObject, ProfilePath.Item, ProfilePathProxy.Item

Derived Classes

ProfileEntityProxy

Version

Introduced in version 5

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