topic Re: List all available plot styles with .NET API in Civil 3D Customization Forum

List all available plot styles with .NET API

varshaauti27 — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:40:08 GMT

Hi,

I am looking for method or way to retrieve all available plot styles. There is PlotStyleNameDictionaryId gives plot styles that are currently being used. But looking for a method to list ALL of the available plot styles, including those that haven't yet been used in the drawing?

Re: List all available plot styles with .NET API

hippe013 — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 17:22:40 GMT

You need to be able to read the actual style table file (.stb). I use PiaNO for this.

It can be found here:

https://github.com/phusband/PiaNO

Re: List all available plot styles with .NET API

varshaauti27 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:08:11 GMT

Is it possible to read style table file (.stb) with API itself instead of third-party dll?

Re: List all available plot styles with .NET API

Jeff_M — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 19:02:02 GMT

[CommandMethod("ListAllPlotStyles")] public void listallplotstyles() { dynamic comAcad = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.AcadApplication; string[] stylePaths = comAcad.Preferences.Files.PrinterStyleSheetPath.Split(';'); var theList = ""; //if there are multiple paths, will need to loop through those as well foreach (var fileName in Directory.GetFiles(stylePaths[0])) { if (fileName.EndsWith("tb")) theList += theList == "" ? fileName : "\n" + fileName; } if (theList == "") return; Application.ShowAlertDialog(theList.ToString()); }

Re: List all available plot styles with .NET API

varshaauti27 — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:28:17 GMT

Thanks Jeff for looking into this issue.

But I don't need .stb file list. I am looking for all available plot style list.

Refer attached image, Where I have selected "acad.stb" and "Autodesk-Color.stb" as plot style table which gives me plot styles associated with that selected style table.

I am looking for way to retrieve all available plot styles. I think there might be way to read plot style table and grab plot styles. Not sure at this moment if it's possible with API

Any workaround to retrieve all plot styles available is appreciated. Thanks a lot!

Re: List all available plot styles with .NET API

Jeff_M — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 21:37:46 GMT

Ah, completely misread the request. Why not use the application @hippe013 suggested? It has a free use license and the source code is included so you would be able to combine that dll with yours. I'm not seeing anything built-in to the Autodesk API's.

Re: List all available plot styles with .NET API

hippe013 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:33:41 GMT

There isn't anything the AutoCAD API for reading .ctb or .stb files. PiaNO is very easy to use. And as @Jeff_M said, the source code is available if you wanted to include it in your own dll. I just compiled the dll as it was presented and include it as a reference in my projects that require reading an .stb file. Here is a quick example:

Public Shared Function GetPlotStyleNames(path As String, pStyleMode As Integer) As StringCollection Dim styleNames As New StringCollection If pStyleMode = 0 Then 'Named Plot Styles Dim plotStyleTable As New PlotStyleTable(path) For Each style As PlotStyle In plotStyleTable.PlotStyles styleNames.Add(style.Name) Next ElseIf pStyleMode = 1 Then 'Color Dependent Styles Dim colorTable As New ColorDependentPlotStyleTable(path) For Each style As PlotStyle In colorTable.PlotStyles styleNames.Add(style.Name) Next End If Return styleNames End Function

Re: List all available plot styles with .NET API

varshaauti27 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:33:39 GMT

Thanks Jeff, This code snippet helps me to retrieve .stb and .ctb files and using PiaNo.dll I am able to find Plot styles associated with those file.

Re: List all available plot styles with .NET API

varshaauti27 — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:36:46 GMT

@hippe013 Thank you so much for looking into this issue and providing source code. I am able to retrieve Plot styles using PiaNo.dll