Add function "Plot Style Table" for windown form

[traiduong014969]

Hi, 

Have good day!

Currently, In my form, I'm creating a custom table to print DWG TO PDF with c#. In that I want to add function "Plot style table" to custom my form as snapshot below

However, I don't know code to make it into my code. So someone can help me a for that

Thank you!

[Ed__Jobe]

Before you spend a lot of time on that solution, you might want to know that Bluebeam Revu has an AutoCAD plugin that stores plot settings and then can generate a pdf with a single click based on the saved settings. You save your settings using the second button, then plot with the first button.

[traiduong014969]

Yes, this is first step for my practice with make custom function in cad to window form. In that, I can customize for my idea. I need test OK a function, so I can easily make more similar function. So you can make for me code to my suggestion above?

[norman.yuan]

The plot styles listed in "Plot" dialog box is just the plot style file names (*.ctb) in the AutoCAD's support folder:

C:\Users\[user name]\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\[AutoCAD Version]\enu\Plotters\Plot Styles

So, you only need to reach that folder and collect all the *.ctb file names as a string List/Array and use it to populate the dropdown list on your UI.

[traiduong014969]

Great idea, however I don't know how to way make it, if you can, you can make for example code via your idea for me

[norman.yuan]

The code should be something like

private static List<string> GetPlotStyleList()
        {
            var folder = $"{Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData)}\\Autodesk\\C3D 2021\\enu\\Plotters\\Plot Styles";
            var files = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(folder, "*.ctb");

            return (from f in files select System.IO.Path.GetFileName(f)).ToList();
        }

As you can see, the folder path would be different, depending on the AutoCAD version/vertical product that you are running. For simplicity, I hard coded here as "C3D 2021". You may have to decide the running AutoCAD's version, production name to make this simple code can be used with different version/product of AutoCAD, but since your question is about how to get plot style list, this gives you an idea of how.