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Determine AutoCAD Type

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:13:11 GMT

Hi all,

is there a possibility to determine what type of AutoCAD is running? Standard AutoCAD or Map3D or Civil3D or whatever? I already drag the version info from the currently running acad.exe file, but there is to information about the AutoCAD type saved in the version info. I could parse the path, but that's not a solution for me since everyone can change the pathname to whatever he likes.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

Cheers, Hannes

Re: Determine AutoCAD Type

davidm_adn — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:58:19 GMT

Hannes,

Its in the registry:
HKLM\Software\Autodesk\R**.*\ACAD-****:***\ProductName

Re: Determine AutoCAD Type

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:15:21 GMT

How about the AutoCAD _VERNUM variable?

Deelip Menezes

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Hi all,

is there a possibility to determine what type of AutoCAD is running?
Standard AutoCAD or Map3D or Civil3D or whatever? I already drag the version
info from the currently running acad.exe file, but there is to information
about the AutoCAD type saved in the version info. I could parse the path,
but that's not a solution for me since everyone can change the pathname to
whatever he likes.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

Cheers, Hannes

Re: Determine AutoCAD Type

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:54:28 GMT

It's code maybe useful for you:
[code]
static public void AInfo()
{
Editor ed = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.Editor;
string AcadVer = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.Version.ToString();
ed.WriteMessage("\nAcadVersion: {0}", AcadVer);
string ProductKey = Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime.SystemObjects.DynamicLinker.ProductKey;
ed.WriteMessage("\nProductKey: {0}", ProductKey);
RegistryKey key = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(ProductKey);
string ProductName = key.GetValue("ProductName").ToString();
ed.WriteMessage("\nProductName: {0}", ProductName);
string ProductId = key.GetValue("ProductId").ToString();
ed.WriteMessage("\nProductId: {0}", ProductId);
string ProductCode = key.GetValue("ProductCode").ToString();
ed.WriteMessage("\nProductCode: {0}", ProductCode);
}
[/code]
In ObjectARX you can use:
AcDbHostApplicationServices::getRegistryProductRootKey()
AcDbHostApplicationServices::product()
and so on. Message was edited by: Alexander Rivilis

Re: Determine AutoCAD Type

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:56:14 GMT

Thanks for all replies. I've found a way to definitely distinguish between different AutoCAD releases and versions. For those also facing this problem, here is the way to go:

CString regRootKey = acdbHostApplicationServices()->getRegistryProductRootKey();
CRegistry reg;
reg.Open(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, regRootKey, KEY_READ);
TCHAR buf[200];
ULONG bufSize = 200;
reg.QueryStringValue(_T("ProductName"), buf, &bufSize);
reg.Close();

Now buf is "AutoCAD 200x" for standard AutoCAD-Releases, "Autodesk Map 3D 200x" for Map3D, "Autodesk Civil 3D 200x" for Civil3D and so on.

Thanks everyone for pointing me to the right direction.

Cheers, Hannes.

Re: Determine AutoCAD Type

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:43:21 GMT

What is this: CRegistry ??

error C2065: 'CRegistry' : undeclared identifier

Re: Determine AutoCAD Type

Alexander.Rivilis — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:48:24 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

What is this: CRegistry ??

error C2065: 'CRegistry' : undeclared identifier

Registry Wrapper Class (CRegistry)