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Calling AutoCAD Undo commands from C#.NET

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 16:55:07 GMT

I'm trying to write two methods which call AutoCAD's UNDO command and pass in different parameters. The first method calls UNDO and passes M which means mark the position of the drawing. The second method calls UNDO and passes B which means undo all the way back to the marked position (or the end if there isnt one). So far they are pretty simple

        /// <summary>
        /// Method to mark the current position of the AutoCAD program
        /// </summary>
        public static void MarkPosition()
        {            doc.SendStringToExecute("._UNDO M", true, false, true);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Method to step AutoCAD back int steps
        /// </summary>
        public static void BigUndo()
        {            doc.SendStringToExecute("._UNDO B", true, false, true);
        }

These look like they should work but for some reason they don't. When I call MarkPosition() and then BigUndo() I get an error saying Start of Group encountered; enter Undo End to go back further. To test my syntax. I changed MarkPosition to

public static void MarkPosition() 
{    doc.SendStringToExecute("circle 2,2,0 4 ", true, false, true);
}

which successfully draws a circle. That means my syntax is right but something weird is going on with Undo.

Re: Calling AutoCAD Undo commands from C#.NET

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:30:01 GMT

Does anyone have an answer for this? I also have the same issue.

I've tried:

acDoc.SendStringToExecute("undo 1 ", true, false, false);

acDoc.SendStringToExecute("._UNDO 1 ", true, false, false);

Re: Calling AutoCAD Undo commands from C#.NET

_gile — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:36:41 GMT

Hi,

Difficult to diagnose with so few details about the error (if any), the context, etc.

The main issue while using SendStringToExecute is it runs asynchronously.

For AutoCAD 2015 or later, you can try to use the Editor.Command() method, for prior version you can use Tony Tanzillo's wrapper for the non-public RunCommand() method, both work the same.

acDoc.Editor.Command("_.undo", 1);

Re: Calling AutoCAD Undo commands from C#.NET

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 07:06:12 GMT

It does work with Editor.Command() as well as I'd like it to, thanks.