Does any one know how to bind xref's

[michael_vanhoose]

Does any one know how to Bind Xrefs in the drawings using .net? There must be a easy way other than inserting it in a as a block then saving the state of all those layers.

[cadMeUp]

I have not tried it but this should work:
Database.BindXrefs(Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.ObjectIdCollection, bool)

Call this on a database that contains the Xref that you want to bind in.

You can find it in the object browser.

[Anonymous]

//Database.BindXrefs(Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.ObjectIdCollection,
bool)

What AutoCAD version?



As far for A2007.... you can P/Invoke acedXrefBind();

There are some samples already done and posted here.... do a search in this
newsgroup.

[michael_vanhoose]

I have 2007 and I can't see db.bindxref in my object browser. I did a search many times on xrefs,bind and nothing comes up. if you have a link of something that would be very nice.

Also, thanks for your reply.

[Anonymous]

/*
I have 2007 and I can't see db.bindxref in my object browser. I did a
search many times on xrefs,bind and
nothing comes up. if you have a link of something that would be very nice.

Also, thanks for your reply.
*/

Strange....

but here is something:

[DllImport("acad.exe", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl, CharSet
= CharSet.Unicode,
EntryPoint =
"acedXrefBind@@YAAW4ErrorStatus@Acad@@PB_W_N1PAVAcDbDatabase@@@Z")]

extern public static ErrorStatus acedXrefBind(string XrefBlockname, bool
bInsertBind, bool bQuiet, IntPtr db);


using (Transaction tr =
db.TransactionManager.StartTransaction())
{
BlockReference blkRef = tr.GetObject(id,
OpenMode.ForWrite, false) as BlockReference;
BlockTableRecord blkRec =
(BlockTableRecord)tr.GetObject(blkRef.BlockTableRecord, OpenMode.ForWrite);
if (blkRec.IsFromExternalReference)
{
string blockname = blkRec.Name, fileName =
blkRec.PathName; Point3d origin = blkRec.Origin;
if (acedXrefBind(blockname, true, true,
HostApplicationServices.WorkingDatabase.UnmanagedObject) == ErrorStatus.OK)
ed.WriteMessage("\nXref was binded...");

[cadMeUp]

Sorry, I did not realize it was for 2007 and you are right I do not see it there for that version.

You could try this:
string xrefname = "SOME_XREF_NAME";
string comStr = String.Format("-xref bind {0}\n", xrefname);
AcadApp.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.SendStringToExecute(comStr, false, false, false);

It will produce what you want, but it is an odd way.

[michael_vanhoose]

did they add this in 2008 Database.BindXrefs(Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.ObjectIdCollection,
bool)? I guess I'm better off using COM. I'm trying to get away from COM.

[cadMeUp]

Yes, it is in 2008. Strange that they don't have a direct way in 2007. You could insert the xref database into the dwg that contains it, as a block, and just give it a new block name, but that would not remove the xref from the database which is what I assume you want? Can I ask what the reason is for binding the xref to the dwg?

[michael_vanhoose]

When we send them to customers we bind them. That's good to know about 2008 though. They must have thought about.