AutoCAD Inventor :: Picking Sketch Line From Drawing?

Dec 19, 2011

 VB.NET with VS2010, Inventor 2012

I have a drawing view of a part with a sketch that contains some lines. I need to pick one of the sketch lines.

I can pick a line with sketch active using the kSketchCurveLinearFilter

I have not been able to pick it from outside of sketch. Have tried using kDrawingCurveSegmentFilter to get a DrawingCurveSegment but I can not get the sketch line from the DrawingCurveSegment

I assume there is a way to get the sketch line from DrawingCurveSegment or DrawingCurveObject but have not figured it out.

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