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Sheet Set: Access Sheet Properties

ChrisPicklesimer — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:37:19 GMT

I am able to access(list & modify) custom sheet properties within a sheet set via .GetCustomPropertyBag. How are the OOTB sheet properties accessed? Could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

Chris

Re: Sheet Set: Access Sheet Properties

Balaji_Ram — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:38:43 GMT

Hi Chris,

Do you mean adding the custom properties to a sheet instead of a sheetset ?

If that is the case, it is very similar to the way the custom properties were added to the sheetset.

Here is a sample code :

    Private Sub SetSheetCustomProp()

        Dim doc As Document
        doc = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument

        Dim ed As Autodesk.AutoCAD.EditorInput.Editor
        ed = doc.Editor

        sheetSetMgr = New AcSmSheetSetMgr

        Dim iterDb As IAcSmEnumDatabase
        iterDb = sheetSetMgr.GetDatabaseEnumerator

        Dim ItemDb As IAcSmPersist
        ItemDb = iterDb.Next

        sheetdb = ItemDb

        LockDatabase()

        Dim sheetsetEnum As IAcSmEnumComponent
        sheetsetEnum = sheetdb.GetSheetSet().GetSheetEnumerator()

        Dim sheetsetItem As IAcSmComponent
        sheetsetItem = sheetsetEnum.Next()

        Dim iterator As IAcSmEnumPersist
        iterator = sheetdb.GetEnumerator()

        Dim item As IAcSmPersist
        item = iterator.Next()

        While item IsNot Nothing
            Dim type As String
            type = item.GetTypeName()

            Select Case type
                Case "AcSmSheet"
                    'List the sheet
                    Dim sheet As IAcSmSheet = TryCast(item, IAcSmSheet)

                    Dim i As Integer
                    i = 0

                    Do While i < 5
                        Dim cBag As IAcSmCustomPropertyBag
                        Dim cBagVal As New AcSmCustomPropertyValue

                        cBag = sheet.GetCustomPropertyBag

                        cBagVal.InitNew(cBag)

                        cBagVal.SetFlags(PropertyFlags.CUSTOM_SHEET_PROP)
                        cBagVal.SetValue("Test" + i.ToString())

                        cBag.SetProperty("Test" + i.ToString(), cBagVal)

                        cBagVal = Nothing

                        i = i + 1
                    Loop

                Case Else
                    ed.WriteMessage("vbCrLfType :" + type)

            End Select
            item = iterator.Next()
        End While


        UnlockDatabase()
    End Sub

Re: Sheet Set: Access Sheet Properties

ChrisPicklesimer — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:11:01 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the response and code. I was hoping to access the non-custom properties of a sheet like:

Sheet title, Sheet number, Revision number, Revision date, Purpose, Category, Description & Include for publish

I know I can do this through SSM but can I access progrmatically?

Thanks.

Chris

Re: Sheet Set: Access Sheet Properties

Balaji_Ram — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:25:18 GMT

Hi Chris,

Here is a blog post on accessing these properties :

http://adndevblog.typepad.com/autocad/2013/01/accessing-revision-number-revision-date-purpose-and-category-of-a-sheet.html

Re: Sheet Set: Access Sheet Properties

ChrisPicklesimer — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:20:30 GMT

Thanks! I now see how I can loop through sheets and get the current values. I would now like to modify these values, I noticed the following methods: .SetRevisionNumber, .SetRevisionDate, .SetIssuePurpose and .SetCategory. I tried to update using these methods ( example: mySheet2.SetRevisionNumber("2") ) but got an error. How are these values modified? Thanks again.

Chris

Re: Sheet Set: Access Sheet Properties

Balaji_Ram — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:56:23 GMT

Hi Chris,

What is the error message that you get ? Maybe you havent locked the sheetset database before setting the revision number ?

Here is a sample code to set the revision number for all the sheets in a sheetset :

    <CommandMethod("SetRevision")> _
    Public Sub SetRevisionMethod()
        Dim dstFile As String
        dstFile = "C:\Temp\MySheetSet\MySheetSet.dst"

        Dim mgr As AcSmSheetSetMgr = New AcSmSheetSetMgr()
        Dim db As AcSmDatabase = New AcSmDatabase()
        db = mgr.OpenDatabase(dstFile, False)

        Dim lockStatus As AcSmLockStatus
        lockStatus = db.GetLockStatus

        If lockStatus = 0 Then
            db.LockDb(db)
        End If

        Dim ss As AcSmSheetSet = db.GetSheetSet()

        Dim EnumSheets As IAcSmEnumComponent = ss.GetSheetEnumerator()

        Dim smComponent As IAcSmComponent
        Dim sheet As IAcSmSheet
        Dim sheet2 As IAcSmSheet2

        smComponent = EnumSheets.Next()

        While True
            If smComponent Is Nothing Then
                Exit While
            End If

            sheet = TryCast(smComponent, IAcSmSheet)

            ' To access the revision number, 
            ' Revision date, Purpose and Category,
            ' cast it as IAcSmSheet2
            sheet2 = TryCast(smComponent, IAcSmSheet2)
            If sheet2 IsNot Nothing Then
                sheet2.SetRevisionNumber("111")
            End If

            smComponent = EnumSheets.Next()
        End While

        db.UnlockDb(db)

        mgr.Close(db)
    End Sub

Re: Sheet Set: Access Sheet Properties

ChrisPicklesimer — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:32:56 GMT

Thanks, I'll give that a try.