Hello,
There is no problem with opening drawings. I can connect to the drawing,
open new drawings and close drawings. I can connect to the document object.
The error occurs when I try to set a variable that connects to the
modelspace object. It is like a drawing is opened in name only, as if it is
a shell with no guts. None of the other objects are accessible such as
dictionaries, blocks or layers. I can, however, interact with the AutoCAD
drawing manually.
Any new thoughts?
Thank you,
Michael Madrid
Ing. B. Miksch wrote in message
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> Hi Jorge!
>
> Have you tested, if a drawing is open.
> If you make a link to AutoCAD and there is no drawing open, your DOC
points
> to "NIRWANA"!
> All the following lines make no sense then!
>
> Ing. B. Miksch
> Greetings from AUSTRIA
> www.artandaction.at
>
> Jorge Terrazas schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
> F6B6DC1C721B34C115AE58918971984B@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > I have written a program that extracts attribute data from AutoCAD
> > drawings to populate a database. AutoCAD is not always on when the user
> > starts my program. I first try to connect to AutoCAD with the following
> > line:
> >
> > Set ACAD = GetObject(, "Autocad.Application")
> >
> > If that returns an error I try:
> >
> > Set ACAD = CreateObject("AutoCad.Application")
> >
> > These two statements and the next few statements that set up my
object
> > references for AutoCAD come straight out of the AutoCAD help files:
> >
> > Set DOC = ACAD.ActiveDocument
> > Set MS = DOC.ModelSpace
> > Set BLOCKS = DOC.BLOCKS
> > Set SSET = DOC.SelectionSets
> > Set UTIL = DOC.Utility
> >
> > The problem is that sometimes after I have launched and connected to
> > AutoCAD and the DOC variable has been set, almost all of the other
objects
> > in the AutoCAD environment have "No Database". I get an error message
> > saying: "Run-time error '-2145386390 (8020006a)'".
> >
> > How can I update the AutoCAD environment or my VB environment to
> reflect
> > the fact that I have AutoCAD running.
> >
> > I can't set the MS (ModelSpace) variable. That's the first one that
> > causes trouble, but I'm sure the others would return the same message
> > because when I look at the DOC object in the watch window, "No Database"
> is
> > the value of almost all of the objects.
> >
> > Any help is appreciated. Thank you.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Michael Madrid
> >
>
