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Any ways to open drawings but not showing to the users?

ptranU2KHX — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:23:43 GMT

Hi everyone,

My project has some old functions using the document as a parameter.

However, I have researched and found out that using GetDocument from database.ReadDWGFile will not return the document. Ref: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/net/get-the-document-when-working-with-drawings-in-side-database/m-p/10870694#M71439

Therefore I have to open drawings to get the documents. However, it might get the users disturbed since the screen keeps flashing.

I would like to ask if there is a way to open the drawing without showing on the screen.

I am open to other solutions.

Thank you.

Re: Any ways to open drawings but not showing to the users?

norman.yuan — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:18:51 GMT

"Document" as .NET API class, is the drawing opened in AutoCAD editor, while "Database" can be either associated with an open document, or opened in memory as "side database" WITHOUT Document.

You choose to open a drawing as Document or side Database with your code based on what your code/app needs to do. You might as well explain what you are to do, so that someone could offer useful suggestions.

Re: Any ways to open drawings but not showing to the users?

ptranU2KHX — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 15:24:37 GMT

Thanks @norman.yuan

Well, the old functions I mentioned about using document; it is the longtransaction('document').

Therefore, I need to find way to convert the database to document but it seems impossible based on the post above.