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    Active Member
    Posts: 7
    Registered: ‎09-30-2008

    calling a drawing from the vault within VB.NET

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    09-28-2012 01:20 PM

    What is the vault name or procedure for getting an autoCAD drawing from the vault

    example from the c drive I use:

     

    g_acadDoc = m_AcadApp.Documents.Open("C:\VAULT_WIP\DWG\L324532.dwg")

     

    What would you use instead of C:\ 

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    Employee
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    Registered: ‎12-12-2006

    Re: calling a drawing from the vault within VB.NET

    10-01-2012 05:51 AM in reply to: dbvetter01

    You call DownloadFile, which gives you a byte array.  You can then save the array to any location on disk that you want.  See the VaultFileBrowser sample in the SDK for an example of a download.



    Doug Redmond
    Software Engineer
    Autodesk, Inc.
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    Active Member
    Posts: 7
    Registered: ‎09-30-2008

    Re: calling a drawing from the vault within VB.NET

    10-01-2012 01:26 PM in reply to: dbvetter01

    Isn't there a way to map the database as a drive letter?  or server path?  It would be so much easier for programmers.

     

    In other EMDS you can map the main vault as a drive letter i.e V:\

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    Employee
    Posts: 652
    Registered: ‎12-12-2006

    Re: calling a drawing from the vault within VB.NET

    10-03-2012 04:52 AM in reply to: dbvetter01

    Autodesk.Connectivity.Explorer.ExtensibilityTools.dll has some utilities to help with this.

    There is a DownloadFile function which will download to the user's working folder location.



    Doug Redmond
    Software Engineer
    Autodesk, Inc.
    http://justonesandzeros.typepad.com/

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