topic Re: calling a drawing from the vault within VB.NET in Vault Customization Forum

calling a drawing from the vault within VB.NET

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:20:54 GMT

What is the vault name or procedure for getting an autoCAD drawing from the vault

example from the c drive I use:

g_acadDoc = m_AcadApp.Documents.Open("C:\VAULT_WIP\DWG\L324532.dwg")

What would you use instead of C:\

Re: calling a drawing from the vault within VB.NET

Redmond.D — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:51:03 GMT

You call DownloadFile, which gives you a byte array. You can then save the array to any location on disk that you want. See the VaultFileBrowser sample in the SDK for an example of a download.

Re: calling a drawing from the vault within VB.NET

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:26:07 GMT

Isn't there a way to map the database as a drive letter? or server path? It would be so much easier for programmers.

In other EMDS you can map the main vault as a drive letter i.e V:\

Re: calling a drawing from the vault within VB.NET

Redmond.D — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:52:40 GMT

Autodesk.Connectivity.Explorer.ExtensibilityTools.dll has some utilities to help with this.

There is a DownloadFile function which will download to the user's working folder location.