Application.Documents.Open with updates deferred

[Anonymous]

Hi

I'm looking to open a drawing via the Application.Documents.Open method, or else something effectively the same, that can get me the drawing document from within a different document, only with updates deferred.

I would like to skip resolving files/opening subdocuments for a particular script because it has a huge impact on performance (lots of files, no subdocument information needed).

Is there any way to do this?

Thanks

EDIT: using Application.AssemblyOptions.DeferUpdate seems to help, but there aren't equivalent properties for the DrawingOptions or PartOptions classes, so I'm still curious to know if there's anything else that can be done.

[Andrii_Humeniuk · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous . You need to write the path to your file in line 3 - "FullFileName"

Dim oNVM As NameValueMap = ThisApplication.TransientObjects.CreateNameValueMap
oNVM.Add("DeferUpdates", True)
Dim oDDoc As DrawingDocument = ThisApplication.Documents.OpenWithOptions("FullFileName", oNVM)

[Anonymous]

Thanks

But what would be the way to turn this off? Do I need to reopen the document with the option unset, or can I do it through the document object somehow?

Would that be through `oDoc.DrawingSettings.DeferUpdates` ?

[Andrii_Humeniuk]

Yes, your guess is correct. In order for the document to be updated again, you need DeferUpdates = False.

oDoc.DrawingSettings.DeferUpdates = False

[Anonymous]

Great, thanks for all the help