How do I set the line style for a drawing view? I haven't found any property for this on the DrawingView object?
DrawingView - Set linestyle for Reference Data?
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I posted an Idea to the Inventor Ideas site about this back in December, because I was working with someone else who was trying to manipulate those settings by code. Unfortunately, it still only has two votes, so it must not be that popular of a request.
Wesley Crihfield
(Not an Autodesk Employee)
That's a nice though, about everything clickable being available to iLogic, but unfortunately we're a long ways from that being a reality. It may be possible to launch that dialog from an iLogic rule, by selecting a drawing view, then executing the proper command ("DrawingViewEditCtxCmd"). And it may be possible to simulate the process of using keyboard keys to navigate that dialog and toggle certain settings, and possibly enter data, using something like SendKeys.SendWait() in an iLogic rule, but even if that were possible, it would likely be unstable/unreliable, and usually a last resort.
I'm still using Inventor Pro 2021.2.2, but I see in the online help for Inventor 2022 that there is a new method defined under the DrawingView object called SetHiddenLinesStatus(), (and also the Get version), but as far as I can tell from that page, it isn't exactly what we're looking for here. Hopefully, if we keep bumping similar posts and directing folks to that Idea, it will get enough votes (or attention) to get taken seriously and maybe implemented.
Wesley Crihfield
(Not an Autodesk Employee)
