Line Lock in Batch

[Pranjal.Anand]

Hi, 

I am currently working on Plant 3D 2018 on a domestic project, I have been asked to lock about 100+ lines which have to be issued. Is there a batch process to lock all the lines at once?

[Anonymous]

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David Cruze

[Pranjal.Anand]

Hi David,
The command you suggested doesn't perform the trick. I need to lock the lines in complete project, which have been used to make the design in Plant 3D.

[jabowabo]

You can lock them on the Isometric DWG tab:

[Pranjal.Anand]

Hi Jason, 

Thank you for your reply. Actually I wanted to know; Say for instance you have 200 lines scattered in the list in Isometrics tab and you want to lock them. So, instead of manually looking for them, is there any batch/automated process utilizing which we can just input the list of lines to be locked and the system locks them?

[jabowabo]

AFAIK, only through the API:

        public static void LineGroupLock(List<string> lineGroupTags, bool lockLineGroup)
        {
            Document doc = MiscTools.GetActiveDoc(); if (doc == null) return;
            Editor ed = doc.Editor;
            Database db = doc.Database;

            PlantProject currentProj = PlantApp.CurrentProject;
            PipingProject pipeProj = (PipingProject)currentProj.ProjectParts["Piping"];
            DataLinksManager dlm = pipeProj.DataLinksManager;
            DataLinksManager3d dlm3d = pipeProj.DataLinksManager3d;
            PnPDatabase pnpDB = dlm.GetPnPDatabase();
            PnPTable pnpLGTbl = pnpDB.Tables["P3dLineGroup"];

            foreach (string lineGroupTag in lineGroupTags)
            {
                try
                {
                    // Get rows where the LineGroup "Number" column equals 'lineNumTag'.
                    string where = "\"Tag\"='" + lineGroupTag + "'";
                    PnPRow[] lgRows = pnpLGTbl.Select(where);
                    foreach (PnPRow lgRow in lgRows)
                    {
                        int lgRowId = lgRow.RowId;
                        dlm3d.LockLineGroup(lgRowId, lockLineGroup, true);
                    }
                }
                catch
                {
                    ed.WriteMessage("\nError: Cannot lock/unlock linegroup " + lineGroupTag);
                }
            }
            dlm.AcceptChanges();
        }

[Pranjal.Anand]

Hi Jason, Could you explain, how to apply this in the actual project in detail?

[jabowabo]

You need to:

• Create a .NET plugin
• Add the code I provided above
• Add your own command method to call that code providing the list of line numbers
• Load the the plugin into your AutoCAD session
• Run the command you created