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I have a drawing wich contain multiple solid parts onto one sheet, but only one is associated with the drawing block description (could be default view or Drawing View XX). I want to take the custom properties of that model and save the PDF with some custom properties parameters on the filename (ex. )
Thank you
Thank you very much. I will give it a try and post the result soon as I implement this. Your code take one assumption, that the drawing block description is always linked with the "Default View" right?
Adrian Luparu wrote:
Your code take one assumption, that the drawing block description is always linked with the "Default View" right?
If that is not the case then use CustomPropertyView
This actually checks to see if you have selected "Default" as your custom property view. If so, then the default view is actually the very first shown view on the drawing which is found by my modelView variable. If you have selected anything other than "Default" then it sorts through each view to find the one that shares the name with the one chosen in the drop down.
Below shows the options for a drawing with only one view. You can choose default or you can explicitly state that Drawing View1 is the one you want to reference. They will both do the same thing and my code will return Drawing View1 in both cases.
I hope that helps explain this. If not, I am happy to answer more questions.
It works, but still struggling with the code to save the drawing as PDF with....
private void ExportPDF_drw(){
SldWorks swApp = null;
ModelDoc2 swModel;
DrawingDoc swDraw;
Sheet swSheet;
SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks.View sheetView;
SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks.View modelView;
swApp = (SldWorks)Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromProgID("SldWorks.Application"));
swModel = (ModelDoc2)swApp.ActiveDoc;
swDraw = (DrawingDoc)swModel; // returns DrawingDoc object
swSheet = (Sheet)swDraw.GetCurrentSheet(); // Gets current drawing sheet as "view"
sheetView = (SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks.View)swDraw.GetFirstView(); // Gets first view on sheet
modelView = (SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks.View)sheetView.GetNextView();
if (swSheet.CustomPropertyView != "Default") // Checks if the referenced view that the drawing uses to get custom properties is default
{
while (modelView.Name != swSheet.CustomPropertyView)
{
modelView = (SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks.View)modelView.GetNextView(); // sets modelView to the view that is referenced for custom properties
}
}
ModelDocExtension swModelDocExtComp;
CustomPropertyManager swCustPropMgrComp;
swModel = modelView.ReferencedDocument;
swModelDocExtComp = swModel.Extension;
object PropNames = default(object);
object PropTypes = default(object);
object PropValues = default(object);
swCustPropMgrComp = swModelDocExtComp.get_CustomPropertyManager(String.Empty);
swCustPropMgrComp.GetAll(ref PropNames, ref PropTypes, ref PropValues);//The documentation says out, but it seems like it needs to be ref instead
string[] asCustPropName = (string[])PropNames;
string[] asCustPropValues = (string[])PropValues;
string revDoc = "";
string value = "";
int errors = 0;
int warnings = 0;
bool boolstatus;
for (int i = 0; i < asCustPropName.GetUpperBound(0) - 1; i++)
{
if (asCustPropName[i].ToString().ToUpper() == "MP_REVISION")
{
revDoc = asCustPropValues[i].ToString().ToUpper();
}
}
if (revDoc.Trim().Length == 0) // if revision is not in custom prop at least input manually if needed
{
if (InputBox("Revision", "Input manual revision", ref value) == DialogResult.OK)
{
revDoc = value;
}
}
string pdfPath = Path.Combine(@"M:\Production_PDF", Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(swModel.GetPathName().ToString().ToUpper())+ @"___" + revDoc + @".pdf");
boolstatus = swModelDocExtComp.SaveAs(pdfPath, (int)swSaveAsVersion_e.swSaveAsCurrentVersion, (int)swSaveAsOptions_e.swSaveAsOptions_Silent, null, ref errors, ref warnings);
}
Where exactly is your problem? Is the SaveAs function not working? If not, you can create a variable before you call SaveAs and name them both (int) errors and (int) warnings. Print the values of each of those to the console when you are done. If they aren't 0 then you can look up exactly what's causing the error in the SolidWorks API documentation for the values.
Other than that, it seems to me that your path is missing a backslash and will end up being [M:\Production_PDFFilename___revdoc.pdf] so if the function is working, it's throwing the file on the root of the M drive.
I hope some of this helps.
Finally I made it. I find the problem so I came to this. Thank you for support
public void ExportPDF_drw(){
int errors = 0;
int warnings = 0;
SldWorks swApp = null;
ModelDoc2 swModel;
DrawingDoc swDraw;
Sheet swSheet;
SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks.View sheetView;
SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks.View modelView;
swApp = (SldWorks)Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromProgID("SldWorks.Application"));
swModel = (ModelDoc2)swApp.ActiveDoc;
swDraw = (DrawingDoc)swModel; // returns DrawingDoc object
swSheet = (Sheet)swDraw.GetCurrentSheet(); // Gets current drawing sheet as "view"
sheetView = (SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks.View)swDraw.GetFirstView(); // Gets first view on sheet
modelView = (SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks.View)sheetView.GetNextView();
if (swSheet.CustomPropertyView != "Default") // Checks if the referenced view that the drawing uses to get custom properties is default
{
while (modelView.Name != swSheet.CustomPropertyView)
{
modelView = (SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks.View)modelView.GetNextView(); // sets modelView to the view that is referenced for custom properties
}
}
//var modelName = modelView.ReferencedDocument; // Gets referenced ModelDoc2 item from the view on the sheet
//ModelDoc2 swModelComp;
ModelDocExtension swModelDocExtComp;
CustomPropertyManager swCustPropMgrComp;
ModelDoc2 swModelRef;
swModelRef = (ModelDoc2)swModel;
swModelRef = modelView.ReferencedDocument;
swModelDocExtComp = swModelRef.Extension;
object PropNames = default(object);
object PropTypes = default(object);
object PropValues = default(object);
swCustPropMgrComp = swModelDocExtComp.get_CustomPropertyManager(String.Empty);
swCustPropMgrComp.GetAll(ref PropNames, ref PropTypes, ref PropValues);//The documentation says out, but it seems like it needs to be ref instead
string[] asCustPropName = (string[])PropNames;
string[] asCustPropValues = (string[])PropValues;
string revDoc = "";
string value = "";
Boolean boolstatus;
for (int i = 0; i < asCustPropName.GetUpperBound(0) - 1; i++)
{
if (asCustPropName[i].ToString().ToUpper() == "MP_REVISION")
{
revDoc = asCustPropValues[i].ToString().ToUpper();
}
}
if (revDoc.Trim().Length == 0) // if revision is not in custom prop at least input manually if needed
{
if (InputBox("Revision", "Input manual revision", ref value) == DialogResult.OK)
{
revDoc = value;
}
}
string fileName = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(swModelRef.GetPathName()).ToUpper().ToString();
string pdfFilepath = null;
if (txt_folderPDFPath.Text.Trim().Length != 0)
{
if (isValidPath(txt_folderPDFPath.Text))
{
pdfFilepath = Path.Combine(txt_folderPDFPath.Text, fileName + @"___" + revDoc + @".pdf");
}
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("The PDF path is empty or not valid.");
}
ModelDocExtension documentExtension = swModel.Extension;
ExportPdfData exportPdfData = (ExportPdfData)swApp.GetExportFileData((int)swExportDataFileType_e.swExportPdfData);
exportPdfData.ViewPdfAfterSaving = true;
exportPdfData.SetSheets((int)swExportDataSheetsToExport_e.swExportData_ExportAllSheets, swDraw.GetSheetNames());
boolstatus = documentExtension.SaveAs(pdfFilepath, (int)swSaveAsVersion_e.swSaveAsCurrentVersion, (int)swSaveAsOptions_e.swSaveAsOptions_Silent, exportPdfData, ref errors, ref warnings);
Exactly the path was wrong, I have to change the glasses.
Yes it is possible. It takes some iterating through variables though. See below for my example snipped from my project.
var swDraw = model.AsDrawing(); // returns DrawingDoc object var swSheet = (Sheet)swDraw.GetCurrentSheet(); var sheetView = (View)swDraw.GetFirstView(); // Gets current drawing sheet as "view" var modelView = (View)sheetView?.GetNextView(); // Gets first view on sheet if (swSheet.CustomPropertyView != "Default") // Checks if the referenced view that the drawing uses to get custom properties is default { while (modelView.Name != swSheet.CustomPropertyView) { modelView = (View)modelView.GetNextView(); // sets modelView to the view that is referenced for custom properties } } var refModelDoc2 = modelView?.ReferencedDocument; // Gets referenced ModelDoc2 item from the view on the sheetI use it here to determine if the default (first) view references the model and if not, it gets the view with the same name as the "CustomPropertyView" and then creates an ModelDoc2 object of the referenced model. From there, I can get it's custom properties, sort through its feature tree and everything else.
Edit - to clarify.
Note: you won't use the model.AsDrawing() function. This is one from an addin library I am using. It essentially casts the ModelDoc2 file to a DrawingDoc file.