A little problem with Model Space

[nedeljko.sovljanski]

Hello,

How to list all entities in Model Space? I used some examples from documentation but result is always same. I have got only one (first) entity.

 Using acTrans As Transaction = modelSpaceDb.TransactionManager.StartTransaction()
                Dim blockTable As BlockTable = acTrans.GetObject(blockTableId, OpenMode.ForRead)
                Dim blockTableRecord As BlockTableRecord = acTrans.GetObject(blockTable(BlockTableRecord.ModelSpace), OpenMode.ForRead)
                For Each entity As ObjectId In blockTableRecord
                   ' Do something
                Next
            End Using

[ed57gmc]

Have a look at this thread.

[nedeljko.sovljanski]

Hi Ed, still is the same result. Only one entity, but I have five lines and text.

[norman.yuan]

I do not see any issue with your code. Are you saying there are multiple entities in the ModelSpace of the drawing?

[nedeljko.sovljanski]

Hi,

Yes, I have five lines and single line text in model space.

[nedeljko.sovljanski]

In this code from Autodesk documentation

https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-034504F8-59F8-4D6D-8777-3EF8A9C251DF

in section "Retrieve entities from Model space" there is stated "The following example returns the first entity object in Model space". It is so confusing.

[norman.yuan]

Did you actually run the code? Or you only take the word of the said documentation as as truth?

The statement of that of that said documentation is clearly not correct unless the ModelSpace only has one entity, or there is a "Exit For" statement inside the "For Each ..." loop that lets the code execution jumps out the loop after getting the first entity.

[nedeljko.sovljanski]

Hi, Norman. I am running code almost six hours. I tried different scenarios. If I first put text and than lines I will get text. If I draw circle and then place single line text I will get only circle, and so on. 

[nedeljko.sovljanski · Accepted solution]

Incredible,

There was some bug with Visual studio debugger. When I put some code in for each loop it shows all entity

[kdub_nz]

@nedeljko.sovljanski 

That's why it's best to post enough code to allow people to say , "Hey, you need there to be a block of code in the if statement"   🙂

It's a bit cheeky to award yourself credit for solving this problem  😂

[norman.yuan]

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@nedeljko.sovljanski wrote:

Incredible,

There was some bug with Visual studio debugger. ...

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It is indeed incredible 😄