LabelSetId not available in Alignment class?

[soonhui]

It seems that LabelSetId is not available for retrieval in Alignment class? But I do remember setting it in constructor, so can we expose it?

[norman.yuan · Accepted solution]

Yeah, since every Alignment.Create() static method requires LabelSet as input, it is very annoyed that Alignment class does not expose it as a read-only property. Yes, in order to find out what LabelSet is associated to an Alignment, we need to write quite complicated code to dig this piece of information out: get the LabelType and StyleName of one of the AlignmentLabelGroup, and then go though all AlignmentLabelSetStyles to see if the LabelSetStyle has a BaseLabelSetItem with same LabelStyleName and LableStyleType as the group's. Obviously, the code needs to go through nested loops to find the match. Autodesk definitely wants to make our work as hard as it gets by not simply expose it after an Alignment is created with this information is a required input.

[soonhui]

@norman.yuan , we need to thank Autodesk for making us exercise our brain more so that we can always remain sharp. 

[soonhui · Accepted solution]

I've written a blog post based on @norman.yuan 's idea. Hopefully it's of use to others.