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Autodesk.AutoCAD.PlottingServices undefined even though AcMgd.dll is referenced

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 17:57:06 GMT

Environment:
AutoCAD 2013

VS 2010, VB.net 4.0

I'm trying to create a multi page pdf with all layouts and all code exapmles I find are based on Autodesk.AutoCAD.PlottingServices (I assume, DsdEntryCollection, DsdData, ... are defined there?)

But in my project, Autodesk.AutoCAD.PlottingServices is undefined.

I tried referencing the applications acmgd.dll as well as the one from ObjectARX 2013 but PlottingServices never is available.

Am I missing something?

Re: Autodesk.AutoCAD.PlottingServices undefined even though AcMgd.dll is referen

norman.yuan — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 22:03:42 GMT

Since AutoCAD 2013, when doing AutoCAD .NET API development, besides acdbmgd.dll and acmgd.dll, you als need to set reference to accoremgd.dll. Many .NET API namespaces previously contained in acdbmgd/acmgd.dll assemblies are now in accoremgd.dll.

If your drawing has multiple layouts with different size and you want to create multiple-page PDF/DWF(x), you cannot use PlotEngine, which has an issue (bug) that prevents AutoCAD from generating multi-page PDF with difference page size (that is, all the output page for each PDF page must be the same. In this case, you can only use Publishing API (e.g Dsd.. stuff that you may already statudied).

Also, although this forum group is named "Visual Basic Customization", traditionally, it is for VBA and AutoCAD COM API discussion, while your .NET API related topics are better discussed in .NET forum group.

Re: Autodesk.AutoCAD.PlottingServices undefined even though AcMgd.dll is referen

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:13:57 GMT

Thanks for the help!

Now, as we are "remote controlling" Autocad via an external exe, we cannot use .Net but use COM - and now I'm lost as I cannot find the PlottingServices in the COM environment. All code examples (using DsdEntry, Publisher, PlotConfig) seem to be targeted for .Net.

Is there any other option for creating multi-page pdfs in COM?