I am trying to find the actual product name or some other identification for the current AutoCAD product in which my .Net add-in is executing. For example my add-in might load in 'Vanilla' AutoCAD or MEP or Architecture. I would like to be able to detect if it is running in one of these products. Similarly I would like to be able to detect this information from a drawing. For example, I would like to write some logic to detect if a drawing authored in, say, MEP is being used in Architecture.
For the whole product this should do it:
Imports MgdAcApplication = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application
Dim product As String = "ACAD: " + MgdAcApplication.Version.ToString + " PROD: " + MgdAcApplication.GetSystemVariable("PRODUCT").ToString
in my case this says: ACAD: 19.0.0.0 PROD: AutoCAD
There is also object level versioning embedded in every drawing database entity (Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.Entity) called ObjectBirthVersion
Dim dbObj As Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.DBObject = _
acTrans.GetObject(id, Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.OpenMode.ForWrite)
Dim ent As Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.Entity = _
TryCast(dbObj, Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.Entity)
Dim objVersion As String = "ObjectBirthVersion: " + ent.ObjectBirthVersion.ToString
If you print this out:
ObjectBirthVersion: 'AC1012,Release0'
Thanks for the reply and help finding the product in the application. I am still missing the product for the drawing. We want to warn the user if they are opening something like a MEP drawing in vanilla AutoCAD because objects won't contain the rich data they would in MEP.
You can find the drawing version info in the drawing Database under OriginalFileVersion:
Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.Database.OriginalFileVersion:
OriginalFileVersion = AC1024
This means: AutoCAD 2010, AutoCAD 2011, AutoCAD 2012
You can decode the version from the wiki page I linked in my original response.Not sure if this helps you but that's the only version info in the drawing I am aware of.
If you want to dig in yourself, the following code prints out all the available info in the drawing database. You can use it for any object including the drawing itself:
Imports MgdAcApplication = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application
Dim activeDoc As Document = MgdAcApplication.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument
Dim ed As Editor = activeDoc.Editor
Dim props As PropertyInfo() = activeDoc.GetType().GetProperties()
ed.WriteMessage(vbLf + "PROPS=" + props.Count.ToString)
Dim i As Int32 = 0
For Each p As System.Reflection.PropertyInfo In props
Try
ed.WriteMessage(vbLf + p.Name + "=" + p.GetValue(activeDoc, Nothing).ToString)
i += 1
Catch
Dim msgStr As String = String.Format("ERR: '{0}' p='{1}'", Err.Description, p.ToString)
ed.WriteMessage(vbLf + msgStr)
End Try
Next
Thank you for your help. I feel a bit embarrassed as I didn't notice the link to the wiki article. In my defense the link looks like all the other page links so I probably just glossed it over. Thank you for taking time to go through it!