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Add function "Plot Style Table" for windown form

traiduong014969 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:47:10 GMT

Hi,

Have good day!

Currently, In my form, I'm creating a custom table to print DWG TO PDF with c#. In that I want to add function "Plot style table" to custom my form as snapshot below

However, I don't know code to make it into my code. So someone can help me a for that

Thank you!

Re: Add function "Plot Style Table" for windown form

Ed__Jobe — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:21:18 GMT

Before you spend a lot of time on that solution, you might want to know that Bluebeam Revu has an AutoCAD plugin that stores plot settings and then can generate a pdf with a single click based on the saved settings. You save your settings using the second button, then plot with the first button.

Re: Add function "Plot Style Table" for windown form

traiduong014969 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:47:28 GMT

Yes, this is first step for my practice with make custom function in cad to window form. In that, I can customize for my idea. I need test OK a function, so I can easily make more similar function. So you can make for me code to my suggestion above?

Re: Add function "Plot Style Table" for windown form

norman.yuan — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 17:29:35 GMT

The plot styles listed in "Plot" dialog box is just the plot style file names (*.ctb) in the AutoCAD's support folder:

C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\[AutoCAD Version]\enu\Plotters\Plot Styles

So, you only need to reach that folder and collect all the *.ctb file names as a string List/Array and use it to populate the dropdown list on your UI.

Re: Add function "Plot Style Table" for windown form

traiduong014969 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 17:37:05 GMT

Great idea, however I don't know how to way make it, if you can, you can make for example code via your idea for me

Re: Add function "Plot Style Table" for windown form

norman.yuan — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 18:48:37 GMT

The code should be something like

private static List<string> GetPlotStyleList() { var folder = $"{Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData)}\\Autodesk\\C3D 2021\\enu\\Plotters\\Plot Styles"; var files = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(folder, "*.ctb"); return (from f in files select System.IO.Path.GetFileName(f)).ToList(); }

As you can see, the folder path would be different, depending on the AutoCAD version/vertical product that you are running. For simplicity, I hard coded here as "C3D 2021". You may have to decide the running AutoCAD's version, production name to make this simple code can be used with different version/product of AutoCAD, but since your question is about how to get plot style list, this gives you an idea of how.