Electrical component access from dll

[vince.krueger]

I asked on the .NET forum and am not getting any responses, so I figured I would ask here also.

I have an external C# application that i use to feed commands to the NETLOAD-ed dll that I created, and it generally works fine.  I have the normal accoremgd, acdbmgd and acmgd dlls in my dll.

What i am not finding in the resources, or searching the forum (or the web for that matter) is a way to access the electrical components (Project, Schematic, Panel).  Is there another dll that I need to reference?

Right now the dll method seems to be good for very basic normal operations, but I am struggling finding a way to make it useful in complex situations like I have (working in multiple electrical projects on many drawings, including creating new drawings and moving between open drawings [session mode does not seem to help there either])

[daniel_cadext · Accepted solution]

I found a couple of threads while doing forum search, looks like there’s no .NET API

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-electrical-forum/autocad-electrical-api/td-p/5468969

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-electrical-forum/dll-s-for-electrical-api-in-c-net/td-p/97601...

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-electrical-forum/missing-dlls-for-autocad-electrical-api-deve...

the last link is interesting, there’s Autodesk.AutoCAD.Electrical.Interop.Common.dll, Autodesk.AutoCAD.Electrical.Interop.Data.dll, so apparently there’s some support for Automation.

Those lisp functions like (ace_closeproject) should be available via .NET’s equivalent of acedInvoke.

I’d start by investigating what’s in interop

[vince.krueger]

Thank you Daniel, that is what I was afraid of. 

I created an application in Excel with VBA years ago that does everything I need by using the LISP commands. 

I kept getting questioned by other AutoCAD users when I would ask off the wall questions to fix issues I was running into.  As a group they said I should basically abandon what I was doing and move into c# dll in the application.  I started porting that way, then started having even more issues than I had before (thus thinking I was missing a dll).

Hopefully AutoCAD comes out with something soon.

Thanks again