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VB.Net - Drawing Sheet Size

premysl.misun — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:05:20 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I have program in VB.Net to change drawing sheet format. It works but only for A4 format is OK - this format I need portrait. For A3, A2, A1 and A0 I need landscape of this format. How can I change it?

Here is code (I probably need to change kA3DrawingSheetSize to antoher name, but I do not know how):

    Private Sub FormatA3_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles FormatA3.Click

        Dim oDoc As Inventor.DrawingDocument = _invApp.ActiveDocument

        Dim oSheet As Sheet
        oSheet = oDoc.ActiveSheet

        'get current size
        Dim Size As DrawingSheetSizeEnum
        Size = oSheet.Size

        'set new size
        oSheet.Size = DrawingSheetSizeEnum.kA3DrawingSheetSize

        'update sheet to see results
        oSheet.Update()

    End Sub

I tried kA4DrawingSheetSize, kA3DrawingSheetSize, kA2DrawingSheetSize, kA1DrawingSheetSize and kA0DrawingSheetSize but all are portraits.

Thank you very much for your answer.

Premysl

Re: VB.Net - Drawing Sheet Size

Jef_E — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:09:29 GMT

It seems to me that the changing of size works? Only the orientation is failing you?

Change the orientation by:

Sheet.Orientation Property

Parent Object: Sheet

Description

Gets or sets the orientation of the sheet as it is viewed or printed.

Syntax

Sheet.Orientation() As PageOrientationTypeEnum

Version

Introduced in Inventor version 4

PageOrientationTypeEnum Enumerator

Description

Page Orientation style.

Methods

Name	Value	Description
kDefaultPageOrientation	10241	Specifies the default setting. The more strongly typed value is returned in a query.
kLandscapePageOrientation	10242	Page is oriented as a Landscape.
kPortraitPageOrientation	10243	Page is oriented as a Portrait.

Version

Introduced in Inventor version 4

Re: VB.Net - Drawing Sheet Size

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:14:18 GMT

Hi,

you must also use -> oSheet.Orientation = Inventor.PageOrientationTypeEnum.kLandscapePageOrientation

kind regards,

Geert

Re: VB.Net - Drawing Sheet Size

t_hascj — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 11:21:21 GMT

Hi Premysl,

You can change orientation by property Orientation.

'default orientation
oSheet.Orientation = PageOrientationTypeEnum.kDefaultPageOrientation
'page is oriented as a Landscape
oSheet.Orientation = PageOrientationTypeEnum.kLandscapePageOrientation
'page is oriented as a Portrait
oSheet.Orientation = PageOrientationTypeEnum.kPortraitPageOrientation

S pozdravom,
Jaroslav

Re: VB.Net - Drawing Sheet Size

premysl.misun — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:16:02 GMT

Thank you, works good 🙂

Re: VB.Net - Drawing Sheet Size

Jef_E — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 07:53:07 GMT

Just for curiosity, was my answer insufficient to solve the problem?

Re: VB.Net - Drawing Sheet Size

premysl.misun — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 08:07:43 GMT

I am not a software enginner and for me was much easier to copy other commands and put it to my program. And it was mcuh quicker than try it by another way.

Re: VB.Net - Drawing Sheet Size

Jef_E — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 08:13:27 GMT

But my answer is 100% the same 😄 just not oSheet.orientation but sheet.orientation

I always post a reference from the API as answer as for me it's the most clear and you can learn the most from it, maybe I should stop doing this?