topic Re: Get entity type in .NET Forum

Get entity type

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:30:14 GMT

Hi,

I filtering for objects based on layer as shown below.How do i know which type the entity is like whether it is arc or line or circle.Any ideas please.

Dim ss As SelectionSet

Dim idarray As ObjectId() = ss.GetObjectIds()

Dim id AsObjectId

For Each id In idarray

Dim entity As = trLocal.GetObject(id, OpenMode.ForRead, True)

Next id

Re: Get entity type

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:18:58 GMT

entity.GetType() will help you.

Regards
Zakir

Re: Get entity type

augusto.goncalves — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 17:01:02 GMT

You can probably try:

For Each id In idarray
Dim ent As Entity = trLocal.GetObject(id, OpenMode.ForRead, True)

if (typeof ent is Arc) then

else if (typeof ent is Line) then

end if
Next id

Re: Get entity type

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 03:00:01 GMT

Thanks a lot for the replies 🙂