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How to Determine What Dll Needs to be Referenced

jmartensBGRRW — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:11:03 GMT

Hello,

I am working thru an example I found on the AutoCAD DevBlog located here -->Plant 3D Example

After getting the code loaded into Visual Studio, I am missing some dlls that need to be referenced to my project.

I would like to know how do you determine which dll is required? My current approach is running a google search key terms such as “PlantProject” and/or “CurrentProject” shown in the screen shot. Then if I do not locate anything I start to manually add the dlls from AutoCAD Plant3D SDK until all the missing dlls are included in the project.

Is there a better approach to this?

Re: How to Determine What Dll Needs to be Referenced

kerry_w_brown — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 21:24:38 GMT

I don't work with Plant3D, so this is a wild assed guess:
Have a look at

https://github.com/ADN-DevTech/Plant3DTraining/blob/master/Labs/LABS_Complete/LAB_01.cs

or perhaps have a look in this template:

https://github.com/ADN-DevTech/Plant3DTraining/blob/master/Tools/VSTemplate/plnt2015template_cs.zip

Regards,

Re: How to Determine What Dll Needs to be Referenced

jmartensBGRRW — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:12:56 GMT

Thank you for that information.

Re: How to Determine What Dll Needs to be Referenced

Ed__Jobe — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 15:47:08 GMT

I would look for the help file outlining the api. I use Electrical and the help file is located here.

C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2023\Acade\Help\en-US\Help\ACE_API.chm

I would imagine that yours has something similar.

-edit. acad comes with the api. It looks like you have to download an SDK. Look there. The help file should give you an indication of what dll's come with it.