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Getting Saving Settings.

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:15:55 GMT

Hi there,

@The moment i am trying to get the saveAs settings that were used when the user hits the save/saveAs button in autocad.

My addin needs to store the current document with these settings. i dont want to use some pop-up dialog.

The .currentVersion property saves the document with the applicationversions standard saveprofile.

I need some kind of property that reflects the users saveAs settings.

Is there any way getting those information via the .net api without doing the interop stuff?

thank you

Re: Getting Saving Settings.

Alexander.Rivilis — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:09:07 GMT

If you mean the current format for save, then, for example:

[CommandMethod("DefForSave")]
public static void DefForSave()
{
  Document doc = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
  Editor ed = doc.Editor;
  object acadObject = Application.AcadApplication;
  object preferences  = acadObject.GetType().InvokeMember("Preferences", 
    BindingFlags.GetProperty, null, acadObject, null);
  object prefOpenSave = preferences.GetType().InvokeMember("OpenSave", 
    BindingFlags.GetProperty, null, preferences, null);
  object dwgversion = prefOpenSave.GetType().InvokeMember("SaveAsType", 
    BindingFlags.GetProperty, null, prefOpenSave, null);
  ed.WriteMessage("\nDefault Format For Save= {0}", dwgversion);
}

Re: Getting Saving Settings.

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:50:07 GMT

Thank you very much for your quick answer Alexander,

i am getting an integer value.

unfortuntley i cannot just use this value within the saveAs method of my document.

i get the following values

DWG2010: 48

DWG2007: 36

DWG2000: 12

is there any mapping-Table ? do i have to map it myself?

Re: Getting Saving Settings.

Alexander.Rivilis — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:09:23 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Thank you very much for your quick answer Alexander,

i am getting an integer value.

unfortuntley i cannot just use this value within the saveAs method of my document.

i get the following values

DWG2010: 48

DWG2007: 36

DWG2000: 12

is there any mapping-Table ? do i have to map it myself?

But you can use this value with AcadDocument.SaveAs method:

object adoc = doc.AcadDocument;
object [] parms = new object[2];
parms[0] = doc.Name; parms[1] = dwgversion;
adoc.GetType().InvokeMember("SaveAs", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, adoc, parms);

Re: Getting Saving Settings.

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:53:22 GMT

Good morning Alexander.

Your suggestions where just perfect. Exactly what i was looking for. Thank you very much.

Is there any documentation about the invokemembers and its parameters for ACAD2012/13?

For the rest of this thread it can be closed. 5-Stars-Rating. 😄

Re: Getting Saving Settings.

Alexander.Rivilis — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:12:56 GMT

InvokeMember is a method of type System.Type (part of Reflection)

AcadDocument, AcadPreferences, etc. are classes from AutoCAD ActiveX API

Re: Getting Saving Settings.

TCARPENTER21 — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 17:53:45 GMT

I realize this is an old post, but does this not work for 2016? I keep getting this error:

Method 'Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Document.Saveas' not found.

I may have something wrong in my code, here's what I'm using:

                Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Document doc2 = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
               
                //Get preferences set in AutoCAD for saveas file version.
                object acadObject = Application.AcadApplication;
                object preferences = acadObject.GetType().InvokeMember("Preferences", 
                    BindingFlags.GetProperty, null, acadObject, null);
                object prefOpenSave = preferences.GetType().InvokeMember("OpenSave",
                    BindingFlags.GetProperty, null, preferences, null);
                object dwgversion = prefOpenSave.GetType().InvokeMember("SaveAsType",
                    BindingFlags.GetProperty, null, prefOpenSave, null);

...
..
 object [] parms = new object[2];
                    parms[0] = DWGSaveName;
                    parms[1] = dwgversion;
                    DwgVersion ver = (DwgVersion)dwgversion;
                    object adoc = doc2;
                    //acDB.SaveAs(DWGSaveName, true, (DwgVersion)ver, acDB.SecurityParameters);

                    adoc.GetType().InvokeMember("Saveas", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, adoc, parms);
                    returnMsg = "Success";

What am I doing wrong?

Re: Getting Saving Settings.

Alexander.Rivilis — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:02:00 GMT

Try replace line of code:

object adoc = doc2;

with

object adoc = doc2.GetAcadDocument();

Re: Getting Saving Settings.

TCARPENTER21 — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:23:43 GMT

Bingo! Thanks a million!