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[Anonymous]

Using VS2005 and AutoCAD 07/08 and SQL Server 2000


Hopefully maybe a stupid question but i guess we'll see....Why doesnt this work??????

MORE CODE ABOVE HERE..........................

Dim Xmax As Decimal
Dim Xmin As Decimal
Dim Ymax As Decimal
Dim Ymin As Decimal
Xmax = (MyEnt.GeometricExtents.MaxPoint.X + 1)
Xmin = (MyEnt.GeometricExtents.MinPoint.X - 1)
Ymax = (MyEnt.GeometricExtents.MaxPoint.Y + 1)
Ymin = (MyEnt.GeometricExtents.MinPoint.Y - 1)
'Dim zoomRec As New DatabaseServices.ViewTableRecord
'Dim ZoomHelp As (Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime.Interop)MyDWG

Dim zoomwindow As New Autodesk.AutoCAD.GraphicsSystem.View
Dim lowerbounds As New Geometry.Point2d(Xmin, Ymin)
Dim UpperBounds As New Geometry.Point2d(Xmax, Ymax)
zoomwindow.ZoomWindow(lowerbounds, UpperBounds)

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What i am doing is selecting labels that are mtext. That is where the coordinates come from. I am trying to zoom to each one in a for next statement. It wont zoom to the window though. There are no errors thrown. Through out the Whole code. Just cant get it to zoom to the entity. I did look through the posts on here and they mention "interop" I dont know what that is and have never used it.


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[Anonymous]

you can't create a new view without more code.
I think what you want is to use the modelspace view to zoom around the drawing, in which case you should add some code like this:

Dim doc As Document = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument
Dim cVP As Integer = System.Convert.ToInt32(Application.GetSystemVariable("CVPORT"))

then instead of creating a new view, set the view obj. to the current view like so:

Dim zoomwindow As Autodesk.AutoCAD.GraphicsSystem.View = doc.GraphicsManager.GetGsView(cVP, True)

then make sure to call zoomwindow.update() everytime you change the zoomwindow object.

[Anonymous]

Also,

you probably don't want to use zoomwindow, you probably want to use zoomextents()

otherwise you are drawing a zoom window based on the size of your entity, instead of zooming the screen to the entity.

oh, and you are actually creating a temporary view of modelspace. when the user regen's they will find they are in the spot they were before the command executed. so you may want to do a regen programmatically to compensate for the screen not being where they think it is.

[Anonymous]

THAT WORKS GREAT!!! Thank you so much. I did use the zoomextents() also.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

the zooms works, but it looks different from the view before. That is,
1) before I had 2-line view of the pipe network on white background
2) in zoom i have some kind of polygon view on grey background
3) after regen I have the old view, but on grey background, mousewheel
acts funny and it suddenly jumps to a view of the complete modelspace

Here is the code, what is wrong?

Document doc = AcadApp.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
Int32 cVP =
System.Convert.ToInt32(Application.GetSystemVariable("CVPORT"));
Autodesk.AutoCAD.GraphicsSystem.View zoomwindow =
doc.GraphicsManager.GetGsView(cVP, true);
zoomwindow.ZoomExtents( obj.GeometricExtents.MinPoint,
obj.GeometricExtents.MaxPoint);
zoomwindow.Update();

AcadApp.ShowAlertDialog("Click me to exit zoom.");
doc.SendStringToExecute("REGEN ", false, false, false);

Thanks,
Patrick

Cadkid82 wrote:
> Also,
>
> you probably don't want to use zoomwindow, you probably want to use zoomextents()
>
> otherwise you are drawing a zoom window based on the size of your entity, instead of zooming the screen to the entity.
>
> oh, and you are actually creating a temporary view of modelspace. when the user regen's they will find they are in the spot they were before the command executed. so you may want to do a regen programmatically to compensate for the screen not being where they think it is.

[Anonymous]

I have some code at work that fixed that. I fought with it for the longest time. I will email it to you in the morning.

[arcticad]

Please Post your code to the Forum for the Benefit of all.

Thank You.

[Anonymous]

My "email address" is NOT nospam@autodesk.com. Please post it to the list.

Did you clone the old view, or create a new view from the old ptr?
I just discovered there is "SetViewFromViewport" and so on.

ampplee37 wrote:
> I have some code at work that fixed that. I fought with it for the
> longest time. I will email it to you in the morning.

[Anonymous]

Here you go Hope this helps you out. There is still some junk in there i need to clean up. its just left over from trying to get it to work properly.

Dim Layout As String = SwitchTabs("Model")
Dim Mytransman As Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.TransactionManager
Dim Mytrans As Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.Transaction
Dim MyDWG As Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Document
Dim MyDWGDB As Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.Database
Dim MyEd As EditorInput.Editor
MyDWG = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument
Mytransman = MyDWG.TransactionManager
Mytrans = Mytransman.StartTransaction
MyDWGDB = MyDWG.Database
MyEd = MyDWG.Editor
Dim currentvisstyle As New Autodesk.AutoCAD.GraphicsInterface.VisualStyle


Dim lowerbounds1 As New Geometry.Point3d(-10000, -10000, 0)
Dim UpperBounds1 As New Geometry.Point3d(10000, 10000, 0)


Dim cVP1 As Integer = System.Convert.ToInt32(Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.GetSystemVariable("CVPORT"))
Dim ZoomWindow1 As Autodesk.AutoCAD.GraphicsSystem.View = MyDWG.GraphicsManager.GetGsView(cVP1, True)
ZoomWindow1.ZoomExtents(lowerbounds1, UpperBounds1)
MyDWG.GraphicsManager.SetViewportFromView(cVP1, ZoomWindow1, True, True, False)
'MyEd.Regen()


ZoomWindow1.Dispose()
Mytrans.Commit()
Mytrans.Dispose()
Mytransman.Dispose()
SwitchTabs(Layout)

[Anonymous]

Thank you! The "SetViewportFromView" did the job. Here is the
alternative version going through Interop:

AcadApplication app =
(AcadApplication)Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.AcadApplication;
Extents3d ext = mem.GeometricExtents;
Vector3d v = new Vector3d((ext.MinPoint -
ext.MaxPoint).ToArray());
Point3d ll = (ext.MinPoint - v * 100.0 / zoomFactor);
Point3d ur = (ext.MaxPoint + v * 100.0 / zoomFactor);
app.ZoomWindow(ll.ToArray(), ur.ToArray());

Just make sure you dont have DOTNET3.5SP1 installed, it has a LOT of
side effects.

Ampplee37 wrote:
> Here you go Hope this helps you out. There is still some junk in there i
> need to clean up. its just left over from trying to get it to work
> properly. Dim Layout As String = SwitchTabs("Model") Dim Mytransman As
> Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.TransactionManager Dim Mytrans As
> Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.Transaction Dim MyDWG As
> Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Document Dim MyDWGDB As
> Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.Database Dim MyEd As
> EditorInput.Editor MyDWG =
> Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument
> Mytransman = MyDWG.TransactionManager Mytrans =
> Mytransman.StartTransaction MyDWGDB = MyDWG.Database MyEd = MyDWG.Editor
> Dim currentvisstyle As New
> Autodesk.AutoCAD.GraphicsInterface.VisualStyle Dim lowerbounds1 As New
> Geometry.Point3d(-10000, -10000, 0) Dim UpperBounds1 As New
> Geometry.Point3d(10000, 10000, 0) Dim cVP1 As Integer =
> System.Convert.ToInt32(Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.GetSystemVariable("CVPORT"))
> Dim ZoomWindow1 As Autodesk.AutoCAD.GraphicsSystem.View =
> MyDWG.GraphicsManager.GetGsView(cVP1, True)
> ZoomWindow1.ZoomExtents(lowerbounds1, UpperBounds1)
> MyDWG.GraphicsManager.SetViewportFromView(cVP1, ZoomWindow1, True, True,
> False) 'MyEd.Regen() ZoomWindow1.Dispose() Mytrans.Commit()
> Mytrans.Dispose() Mytransman.Dispose() SwitchTabs(Layout)