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Creating a SheetSet unsing VB?

Creating a SheetSet unsing VB?

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Creating a SheetSet unsing VB?

Anonymous
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‎05-18-2005 02:11 PM

We currently have an Excel drawing list template
that is chock full of VBA code that (among other things) exports the contents to
an INI file.  This INI file is read by several LISP and Visual Basic
routines to do things like update border attributes and plot
drawings.

 

We are considering making a shift to using fields
and sheet sets, but the functionality of the Excel drawing list is holding us
back - it and it's related functions offer much more that the SheetSet Manager.

 

I was thinking that it might be possible to use the
SheetSet database in much the same way as the INI file. SO I'm turning to this
group for help...

 

Does anyone have or know where I can find a snippet
that will create a SheetSet? I've looked for examples in the Help files and can
seem to find the simple walk though I need to jump start my
brain...

 

Any help always
appreciated! 
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Anonymous
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‎05-27-2005 06:44 AM

The base install of ABS 2005 comes with a bunch of
example code on adding, listing, etc of sheet sets. On my machine it was found
here:

 

C:\Program Files\Autodesk Building Systems
2005\Sample\ActiveX\SheetSetVBA

 

-Chris


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">


We currently have an Excel drawing list template
that is chock full of VBA code that (among other things) exports the contents
to an INI file.  This INI file is read by several LISP and Visual Basic
routines to do things like update border attributes and plot
drawings.

 

We are considering making a shift to using fields
and sheet sets, but the functionality of the Excel drawing list is holding us
back - it and it's related functions offer much more that the SheetSet
Manager.

 

I was thinking that it might be possible to use
the SheetSet database in much the same way as the INI file. SO I'm turning to
this group for help...

 

Does anyone have or know where I can find a
snippet that will create a SheetSet? I've looked for examples in the Help
files and can seem to find the simple walk though I need to jump start my
brain...

 

Any help always
appreciated! 
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Anonymous
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‎05-27-2005 01:39 PM

I was also able to use the xml tools in VB.Net to
create a small standalone app that can edit an ADT project file (similar to a
sheet set) without having acad installed. The included tools can easily read an
xml file and create a schema for it. I then used that to create xmlDataDocument
objects for the app to read/write the xml file.


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style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">


The base install of ABS 2005 comes with a bunch
of example code on adding, listing, etc of sheet sets. On my machine it was
found here:

 

C:\Program Files\Autodesk Building Systems
2005\Sample\ActiveX\SheetSetVBA

 

-Chris


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">


We currently have an Excel drawing list
template that is chock full of VBA code that (among other things) exports
the contents to an INI file.  This INI file is read by several LISP and
Visual Basic routines to do things like update border attributes and plot
drawings.

 

We are considering making a shift to using
fields and sheet sets, but the functionality of the Excel drawing list is
holding us back - it and it's related functions offer much more that the
SheetSet Manager.

 

I was thinking that it might be possible to use
the SheetSet database in much the same way as the INI file. SO I'm turning
to this group for help...

 

Does anyone have or know where I can find a
snippet that will create a SheetSet? I've looked for examples in the Help
files and can seem to find the simple walk though I need to jump start my
brain...

 

Any help always
appreciated! 
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Anonymous
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‎05-31-2005 06:49 PM

Rock on! We just received our ABS Upgrades
today.  I'll have to make it it a priority to check it out. 
Thanks!


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">


The base install of ABS 2005 comes with a bunch
of example code on adding, listing, etc of sheet sets. On my machine it was
found here:

 

C:\Program Files\Autodesk Building Systems
2005\Sample\ActiveX\SheetSetVBA

 

-Chris


style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">


We currently have an Excel drawing list
template that is chock full of VBA code that (among other things) exports
the contents to an INI file.  This INI file is read by several LISP and
Visual Basic routines to do things like update border attributes and plot
drawings.

 

We are considering making a shift to using
fields and sheet sets, but the functionality of the Excel drawing list is
holding us back - it and it's related functions offer much more that the
SheetSet Manager.

 

I was thinking that it might be possible to use
the SheetSet database in much the same way as the INI file. SO I'm turning
to this group for help...

 

Does anyone have or know where I can find a
snippet that will create a SheetSet? I've looked for examples in the Help
files and can seem to find the simple walk though I need to jump start my
brain...

 

Any help always
appreciated! 
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