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adiaz
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Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:44 am Post subject:
How to know if a drawing has ADT or ABS objects |
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Hi everyone. I would like to run a batch process on a random set of drawings from my Project's Drive to find and write to a file or count if the drawing has object(s) from Architectural Desktop or Building System. Does anybody has a code to do this? The reason I want to do this is to find out if the user(s) are using the full capabilities from this packages. Look like the users are using this software like simple AutoCAD and does not make sense to upgrade it to 2005. Any help would be greatly appreciate. TIA.
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Matt W
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Sat Jan 08, 2005 2:09 am Post subject:
Re: How to know if a drawing has ADT or ABS objects |
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You could do something like this (to get you started).
For Architectural Desktop
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Sub ADT_Object_Search()
Dim objEnt As AcadEntity
For Each objEnt In ThisDrawing.ModelSpace
If TypeOf objEnt Is AecWall Then
MsgBox "Found a wall!"
End If
Next objEnt
End Sub
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For Building Systems
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Sub ABS_Object_Search()
Dim objEnt As AcadEntity
For Each objEnt In ThisDrawing.ModelSpace
If TypeOf objEnt Is AecbDevice Then
MsgBox "Found a device!"
End If
Next objEnt
End Sub
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You'll have to add a reference to the AEC Architectural 4.5 Object Library
and the AEC Building Systems 4.5 Object Library.
I'm not sure how you would go about doing a search for ALL AEC (ADT) or AECB
(ABS) objects without adding each type into your code.
In otherwords, I didn't see a global way to test if an object is an AEC
object (whether it's a wall, door, window, etc...).
--
I support two teams: The Red Sox and whoever beats the Yankees.
"adiaz" <nospam@address.withheld> wrote in message
news:3186870.1105130702986.JavaMail.jive@jiveforum1.autodesk.com...
| Quote: | Hi everyone. I would like to run a batch process on a random set of
drawings from my Project's Drive to find and write to a file or count if
the drawing has object(s) from Architectural Desktop or Building System.
Does anybody has a code to do this? The reason I want to do this is to
find out if the user(s) are using the full capabilities from this
packages. Look like the users are using this software like simple AutoCAD
and does not make sense to upgrade it to 2005. Any help would be greatly
appreciate. TIA. |
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Matt W
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Sat Jan 08, 2005 2:11 am Post subject:
Re: How to know if a drawing has ADT or ABS objects |
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Yes... I know I posted VB code in a LSP NG.
Oops!
I'm not sure how you would go about doing this in LSP or VLISP.
--
I support two teams: The Red Sox and whoever beats the Yankees.
"Matt W" <nospam@address.withheld.com> wrote in message
news:41defaa1$1_1@newsprd01...
| Quote: | You could do something like this (to get you started).
For Architectural Desktop
| Code: |
Sub ADT_Object_Search()
Dim objEnt As AcadEntity
For Each objEnt In ThisDrawing.ModelSpace
If TypeOf objEnt Is AecWall Then
MsgBox "Found a wall!"
End If
Next objEnt
End Sub
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For Building Systems
| Code: |
Sub ABS_Object_Search()
Dim objEnt As AcadEntity
For Each objEnt In ThisDrawing.ModelSpace
If TypeOf objEnt Is AecbDevice Then
MsgBox "Found a device!"
End If
Next objEnt
End Sub
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You'll have to add a reference to the AEC Architectural 4.5 Object Library
and the AEC Building Systems 4.5 Object Library.
I'm not sure how you would go about doing a search for ALL AEC (ADT) or
AECB (ABS) objects without adding each type into your code.
In otherwords, I didn't see a global way to test if an object is an AEC
object (whether it's a wall, door, window, etc...).
--
I support two teams: The Red Sox and whoever beats the Yankees.
"adiaz" <nospam@address.withheld> wrote in message
news:3186870.1105130702986.JavaMail.jive@jiveforum1.autodesk.com...
Hi everyone. I would like to run a batch process on a random set of
drawings from my Project's Drive to find and write to a file or count if
the drawing has object(s) from Architectural Desktop or Building System.
Does anybody has a code to do this? The reason I want to do this is to
find out if the user(s) are using the full capabilities from this
packages. Look like the users are using this software like simple AutoCAD
and does not make sense to upgrade it to 2005. Any help would be greatly
appreciate. TIA.
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adiaz
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Sat Jan 08, 2005 3:24 am Post subject:
Re: How to know if a drawing has ADT or ABS objects |
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| Thank you Matt. I am not familiar with VBA but if a piece of VBA code appears I'll be very happy. |
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adiaz
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Sat Jan 08, 2005 3:41 am Post subject:
Re: How to know if a drawing has ADT or ABS objects |
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| My idea is to look for AEC objects in the drawing. I think an easy way to do this is setting the demandload =2 and reading what module aec was/were loaded when the drawing was opened. Any light? |
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Laurie Comerford
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Sat Jan 08, 2005 6:44 am Post subject:
Re: How to know if a drawing has ADT or ABS objects |
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Hi Matt,
I haven't tried this, but maybe you could use something like:
For Each objEnt In ThisDrawing.ModelSpace
If NOT TypeOf objEnt Is AcadObject Then
MsgBox "Found a non-standard AutoCAD object!"
End If
Next objEnt
It would depend on how the API defines AcadObject.
Another approach would be to create an collection of each of the types, then
look at the collection data.
--
Laurie Comerford
CADApps
www.cadapps.com.au
"Matt W" <nospam@address.withheld.com> wrote in message
news:41defb07$1_1@newsprd01...
| Quote: | Yes... I know I posted VB code in a LSP NG.
Oops!
I'm not sure how you would go about doing this in LSP or VLISP.
--
I support two teams: The Red Sox and whoever beats the Yankees.
"Matt W" <nospam@address.withheld.com> wrote in message
news:41defaa1$1_1@newsprd01...
You could do something like this (to get you started).
For Architectural Desktop
| Code: |
Sub ADT_Object_Search()
Dim objEnt As AcadEntity
For Each objEnt In ThisDrawing.ModelSpace
If TypeOf objEnt Is AecWall Then
MsgBox "Found a wall!"
End If
Next objEnt
End Sub
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For Building Systems
| Code: |
Sub ABS_Object_Search()
Dim objEnt As AcadEntity
For Each objEnt In ThisDrawing.ModelSpace
If TypeOf objEnt Is AecbDevice Then
MsgBox "Found a device!"
End If
Next objEnt
End Sub
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You'll have to add a reference to the AEC Architectural 4.5 Object
Library
and the AEC Building Systems 4.5 Object Library.
I'm not sure how you would go about doing a search for ALL AEC (ADT) or
AECB (ABS) objects without adding each type into your code.
In otherwords, I didn't see a global way to test if an object is an AEC
object (whether it's a wall, door, window, etc...).
--
I support two teams: The Red Sox and whoever beats the Yankees.
"adiaz" <nospam@address.withheld> wrote in message
news:3186870.1105130702986.JavaMail.jive@jiveforum1.autodesk.com...
Hi everyone. I would like to run a batch process on a random set of
drawings from my Project's Drive to find and write to a file or count
if
the drawing has object(s) from Architectural Desktop or Building
System.
Does anybody has a code to do this? The reason I want to do this is to
find out if the user(s) are using the full capabilities from this
packages. Look like the users are using this software like simple
AutoCAD
and does not make sense to upgrade it to 2005. Any help would be
greatly
appreciate. TIA.
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