Sanjay,
Thanks for the workflow tip. I will see if I can get that to work, though I
will now have to create a secondary template with all the relevant symbols
already placed on a bogus sheet that I can use to copy them from, it may
be better than nothing.
Bob S.
"Sanjay Ramaswamy (Autodesk)" wrote in message news:418a772a$1_3@newsprd01...
> Bob,
>
> Currently, the only way to copy the definitions across documents is to do
> the following:
>
> 1.. Use the Sheet.CopyTo method to copy the sheet containing the sketched
> symbol from drawing 1 to drawing 2.
> 2.. Get the SketchedSymbolDefinition from the copied sheet in drawing 2.
> 3.. Use the definition from step 2 to create new sketched symbol.
> 4.. Delete the copied sheet.
> We are working on a better mechanism for this.
>
> Sanjay-
>
> "Bob S." wrote in message
> news:418a4b64$1_3@newsprd01...
>> If it is at all possible in IV9 now to do the following, I could use a
> little
>> help. I would like to:
>>
>> 1. Open a template drawing.
>> 2. Get one of it's SketchedSymbolDefinition's
>> 3. Copy the Definition to the active document's definitions.
>>
>> I am currently stuck on #3. I am aware of the Edit method to copy
>> the symbol def sketch, and ExitEdit, but it doesn't really seem possible
>> to use those to copy the symbol def to the active document very
>> easily. It would be nice if there was just some kind of Object Copy
>> method that could work between documents.
>>
>> Anyway, any suggestions, hints, tips, or flat out denials that it can't be
>> done would be appreciated by any and all (especially Autodesk employees)
>> TIA,
>> Bob S.
>>
>>
>
>
