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UserCoordinateSystems Object


Description

The UserCoordinateSystems collection object contains all user coordinate systems within the document and provides methods to create additional ones.

Methods

Name Description
Add Method that creates a new User Coordinate System. The newly created UserCoordinateSystem object is returned.
CreateDefinition Method that creates a new UserCoordinateSystemDefinition 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 UserCoordinateSystem object from the collection.
Type Returns an ObjectTypeEnum indicating this object's type.

Accessed From

AssemblyComponentDefinition.UserCoordinateSystems, FlatPattern.UserCoordinateSystems, PartComponentDefinition.UserCoordinateSystems, SheetMetalComponentDefinition.UserCoordinateSystems, WeldmentComponentDefinition.UserCoordinateSystems

Samples

Name Description
UCS by three points This sample demonstrates the creation of a User Coordinate System (UCS) based on 3 points that define the origin, x-direction and y-direction for the UCS.
UCS by transformation matrix This sample demonstrates the creation of a user coordinate system (UCS) by specifying a transformation matrix.

Version

Introduced in version 2010

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