Repeat the function's action for each selection of the UI

ben_partouch

I have a simple function to split face using a text. I want to be able to select multiple faces and have the function executed for all of them.

How do I go about it?

Thank you

    // Define the function's action


    var center = evPlane(context, {
            "face" : definition.faceToSplit
        });


    debug(context, center, DebugColor.RED);



    var sketch2 = newSketchOnPlane(context, id + "sketch2", {
            "sketchPlane" : center
        });


    var text = skText(sketch2, "text1", {
            "text" : definition.text,
            "fontName" : "Poppins-Regular.ttf",
            "firstCorner" : vector(0, 0) * inch,
            "secondCorner" : vector((1 * inch), definition.fontSize)
        });

    skSolve(sketch2);

    var textEdges = qSketchRegion(id + "sketch2");
    var loop = qLoopEdges(textEdges);

    debug(context, loop, DebugColor.GREEN);



    opSplitFace(context, id + "splitFace1", {
                "faceTargets" : definition.faceToSplit,
                "edgeTools" : loop

            });



    opDeleteBodies(context, id + "deleteBodies2", {
                "entities" : qCreatedBy(id + "sketch2", EntityType.EDGE)
            });

Jed_Yeiser

I'd recommend looking into using a for loop here - though you may run into challenges for any non-planar face as your code requires a planar face to create a plane which you then sketch on. I'd imagine that WHERE you want to split each face is a fairly specific location and that simply solving for 'a plane' on that face does not get you the resolution you're looking for. I'd recommend something similar to what follows:

1. Create a Mate connector somewhere (the origin? why not. Doing so makes things easy).
2. Figure out how many faces you have
3. For each face:
   1. create a mate connector on the face at the location you'd like to move the sketch edges to
   2. (copy?) transform the of the reference sketch to the new location defined by the mate connector.
   3. split the face as you've done.

Cheers,

-j

jelte_steur814

try putting the above in a 'forEachEntity'

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/37fa98fdc1a0b9ce78ff38bb/w/257085d868fb32e6998b6a89/e/11361fdeab998371aea29978

ben_partouch

Thank you @jelte_steur814 , @Jed_Yeiser

I tried this but it didn't work: (It worked for the first MC selected but not the next ones)

    forEachEntity(context, id + "operation", definition.locations, function(entity is Query, id is Id)
        {
            // perform operations with the entity

            var center = evPlane(context, {
                    "face" : definition.locations
                });


            debug(context, center, DebugColor.RED);


            var sketch1 = newSketchOnPlane(context, id + "sketch1", {
                    "sketchPlane" : center
                });


            var index = skCircle(sketch1, "circle1", {
                    "center" : vector(0, -26) * millimeter,
                    "radius" : 0.25 * inch
                });

            skSolve(sketch1);

            var markerEdges = qSketchRegion(id + "sketch1");
            var loop = qLoopEdges(markerEdges);

            debug(context, loop, DebugColor.GREEN);



            opSplitFace(context, id + "splitFace1", {
                        "faceTargets" : definition.faceToSplit,
                        "edgeTools" : loop
                    });

            opDeleteBodies(context, id + "deleteBodies2", {
                        "entities" : qCreatedBy(id + "sketch1", EntityType.EDGE)
                    });

        });

jelte_steur814

forEachEntity applies the function to each instance of definition.locations by passing one of those instances into the 'entity' in the function.

you could rename 'entity' to 'location' for clarity's sake and understand that your definition.locations in the var center = evPlane(…
should be replaced by 'entity'/'location' so it will do one at a time.

BTW. I've found that although AI doesn't understand Featurescript well, it does understand basic programming better than I do (because it's seen a lot more code) and can help out with questions like these that are not very onshape/featurescript specific, but more programming logic.

ben_partouch

Thanks a lot @jelte_steur814 .

Used both your tips. ChatGPT got the first time.