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Convert Paperspace drawings to Modelspace

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 04:40:47 GMT

Our company's standard is PaperSpace, but one of our customers demands all
files to be just ModelSpace. Does anyone have a VBA program that would look
at files and determine if there Paper or Model? If Paper is TRUE than to
run the express tool to convert: CHSPACE.

John Laidler
Cad Manager
Duckworth & Associates, Inc.
(734) 455-7500

Re: Convert Paperspace drawings to Modelspace

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 05:30:02 GMT

Hi John - Just off the top of my head, if the drawing is completely done in
ModelSpace, then the PaperSpace collection should be empty, that is, in a VBA
routine: "ThisDrawing.PaperSpace.Count = 0". If it's not zero, then run CHSpace
I assume. (I've never used it.) Hope this helps...

...Colin French

John Laidler wrote:

> Our company's standard is PaperSpace, but one of our customers demands all
> files to be just ModelSpace. Does anyone have a VBA program that would look
> at files and determine if there Paper or Model? If Paper is TRUE than to
> run the express tool to convert: CHSPACE.
>
> John Laidler
> Cad Manager
> Duckworth & Associates, Inc.
> (734) 455-7500

Re:

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 05:52:46 GMT

how in VBA can you execute an AutoCAD command??
I'm pretty new to VBA, if you haven't noticed.

--
John Laidler
Cad Manager
Duckworth & Associates, Inc.
(734) 455-7500
"Colin French" wrote in message
news:3A2F90DA.B584E257@NOSPAMhotmail.com...
> Hi John - Just off the top of my head, if the drawing is completely done
in
> ModelSpace, then the PaperSpace collection should be empty, that is, in a
VBA
> routine: "ThisDrawing.PaperSpace.Count = 0". If it's not zero, then run
CHSpace
> I assume. (I've never used it.) Hope this helps...
>
> ...Colin French
>
> John Laidler wrote:
>
> > Our company's standard is PaperSpace, but one of our customers demands
all
> > files to be just ModelSpace. Does anyone have a VBA program that would
look
> > at files and determine if there Paper or Model? If Paper is TRUE than
to
> > run the express tool to convert: CHSPACE.
> >
> > John Laidler
> > Cad Manager
> > Duckworth & Associates, Inc.
> > (734) 455-7500
>

Re:

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 10:49:01 GMT

From the VBA help

Sub Example_SendCommand()
' This example sends a command to the AutoCAD commandline
' of a particular drawing for evaluation

' We will create a Circle in the active drawing and will
' zoom to display the entire circle
ThisDrawing.SendCommand "_Circle" & vbCr & "2,2,0" & vbCr & "4" & vbCr
ThisDrawing.SendCommand "_zoom" & vbCr & "a" & vbCr

' Refresh view

ThisDrawing.Regen acAllViewports

MsgBox "A circle command has been sent to the command line of the current
drawing."
End Sub

Bernard
ATC
45700 Villemandeur
France
John Laidler a écrit dans le message :
4B7C3B0BF439BF238E460576CB4AFA87@in.WebX.SaUCah8kaAW...
> how in VBA can you execute an AutoCAD command??
> I'm pretty new to VBA, if you haven't noticed.
>
> --
> John Laidler
> Cad Manager
> Duckworth & Associates, Inc.
> (734) 455-7500
> "Colin French" wrote in message
> news:3A2F90DA.B584E257@NOSPAMhotmail.com...
> > Hi John - Just off the top of my head, if the drawing is completely done
> in
> > ModelSpace, then the PaperSpace collection should be empty, that is, in
a
> VBA
> > routine: "ThisDrawing.PaperSpace.Count = 0". If it's not zero, then run
> CHSpace
> > I assume. (I've never used it.) Hope this helps...
> >
> > ...Colin French
> >
> > John Laidler wrote:
> >
> > > Our company's standard is PaperSpace, but one of our customers
demands
> all
> > > files to be just ModelSpace. Does anyone have a VBA program that
would
> look
> > > at files and determine if there Paper or Model? If Paper is TRUE than
> to
> > > run the express tool to convert: CHSPACE.
> > >
> > > John Laidler
> > > Cad Manager
> > > Duckworth & Associates, Inc.
> > > (734) 455-7500
> >
>

Re:

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 10:49:01 GMT

Hello folks,

With VBA this should be easy to write. Try the Layout collection and
property. Modelspace or "Model" is the last number of the Layout collection,
if I remember well.

Try for example:

Dim objLayout as AcadLayout
With ThisDrawing
Set objLayout = .Layouts(.Layouts.Count - 1)
ThisDrawing.ActiveLayout = objLayout
End With

Henk

Bernard Flavignard schreef in berichtnieuws
36DDF5D1932B30B4AB41055563FFFA66@in.WebX.SaUCah8kaAW...
> From the VBA help
>
> Sub Example_SendCommand()
> ' This example sends a command to the AutoCAD commandline
> ' of a particular drawing for evaluation
>
> ' We will create a Circle in the active drawing and will
> ' zoom to display the entire circle
> ThisDrawing.SendCommand "_Circle" & vbCr & "2,2,0" & vbCr & "4" & vbCr
> ThisDrawing.SendCommand "_zoom" & vbCr & "a" & vbCr
>
> ' Refresh view
>
> ThisDrawing.Regen acAllViewports
>
> MsgBox "A circle command has been sent to the command line of the
current
> drawing."
> End Sub
>
> Bernard
> ATC
> 45700 Villemandeur
> France
> John Laidler a écrit dans le message :
> 4B7C3B0BF439BF238E460576CB4AFA87@in.WebX.SaUCah8kaAW...
> > how in VBA can you execute an AutoCAD command??
> > I'm pretty new to VBA, if you haven't noticed.
> >
> > --
> > John Laidler
> > Cad Manager
> > Duckworth & Associates, Inc.
> > (734) 455-7500
> > "Colin French" wrote in message
> > news:3A2F90DA.B584E257@NOSPAMhotmail.com...
> > > Hi John - Just off the top of my head, if the drawing is completely
done
> > in
> > > ModelSpace, then the PaperSpace collection should be empty, that is,
in
> a
> > VBA
> > > routine: "ThisDrawing.PaperSpace.Count = 0". If it's not zero, then
run
> > CHSpace
> > > I assume. (I've never used it.) Hope this helps...
> > >
> > > ...Colin French
> > >
> > > John Laidler wrote:
> > >
> > > > Our company's standard is PaperSpace, but one of our customers
> demands
> > all
> > > > files to be just ModelSpace. Does anyone have a VBA program that
> would
> > look
> > > > at files and determine if there Paper or Model? If Paper is TRUE
than
> > to
> > > > run the express tool to convert: CHSPACE.
> > > >
> > > > John Laidler
> > > > Cad Manager
> > > > Duckworth & Associates, Inc.
> > > > (734) 455-7500
> > >
> >
>

Re:

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 10:49:01 GMT

Ooh, I see another posting with answers that go a very different direction
(I think I misunderstood your problem). It keeps tricky: multiple posts with
the same subject.

Greetings,
Henk

Re:

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 10:49:01 GMT

the program needs to convert Paperspace entities to Modelspace. I have most
of the code, now I just need to add code so when it detects more than 1
viewport it will select the first viewport created.

here is the code so far:

Public Sub ConvertDrawing()
Dim objLayout As AcadLayout
Dim objLayouts As AcadLayouts
Set objLayouts = ThisDrawing.Layouts
If ThisDrawing.ActiveSpace = acPaperSpace Then
ThisDrawing.SendCommand "CHSPACE" & vbCr & "all" & vbCr & vbCr
Else
End If
End Sub

--
John Laidler
Cad Manager
Duckworth & Associates, Inc.
(734) 455-7500
"Henk Loonstra" wrote in message
news:643A7FAACAD567EC343BF087EA5D90FA@in.WebX.SaUCah8kaAW...
> Ooh, I see another posting with answers that go a very different direction
> (I think I misunderstood your problem). It keeps tricky: multiple posts
with
> the same subject.
>
> Greetings,
> Henk
>