Merge 3 DWG Files into one View?

[Delphi]

Hello!

We have splitted a very Large DWG Drawing in 3 pieces to optimize their View's on Screen.
Is there the ability to load and rearrange the coordinates of the 3 pieces with drag&drop to Display the 3 pieces as a one big View together?

At Moment we use the TSGDrawing Navigator to Display the single pieces. but we must get a combiened View of all 3 pieces. (for instance for Printing )

we use Delphi 6 update 2 with Cadimport v6.1

Any Suggestions are very welcome.

thanks and a nice day

[support]

Hello.
CAD Import VCL allows to load multiple DWG files into single TsgDWGImage object using AddScaledDXF or AddScaledDXFEx methods. Loaded drawings placed as XREF blocks.

Alexander.

[Delphi]

Hello Alexander.

Thank you for your suggestion till now.
Are the added Blocks or Entities individuell positionable, skalable and the composite Image Content together moveable and scalable with same Zoomfactors?
it should be react as a one single File dwg Drawing?

ps. sorry for my poor english, hope its not to hard to understood

best regards

[support]

Hello.
A DWG drawing, that added as XREF, placed on basically created/imported drawing as Insert entity. It can be scaled or moved using Insert properties. However its inner entities won't be accessible.
DXFImage in example is initial drawing that will be used for placing additional DWG drawings.

Alexander.

[Delphi]

Hello Alexander.

i have get the SampleCode for AddScaledDXF To Work. But I Wonder that i Have DXFConverter in Cadimage Unit and not in DXFImage unit. Maybe a Version
Problem? i have modified the path in the Loadfromfile in this code to load *.dwg. But its doas nothing, only a White screen. I guess it not really load the dwg pieces, the loading procedure runs to quick. The same problem with load of real DXF Files.

this code

vCADContainer.LoadFromFile('C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Compiler\Desktop\cube.dxf');

runs in this method

procedure TsgCADImage.LoadFromFile(const FileName: string);
var
S: TFileStream;
Dir: string;
begin
Dir := GetCurrentDir;
S := TFileStream.Create(FileName, fmOpenRead or fmShareDenyNone);
try
SetCurrentDir(ExtractFilePath(FileName));
Converter.FileName := ExtractFileName(FileName);
Converter.SHXFonts.SearchPath.Insert(0, ExtractFilePath(FileName));
try
{// For future versions
OwnSource := True;
Converter.SetSourceStream(S); }
LoadFromStream(S)
finally
S.Free;
SetCurrentDir(Dir);
end;
except
OwnSource := False;
raise;
end;
end;


Problems maybe because the outcommented code? i have tried diverse Parameters, position and scalefaktor. Result is every a white Screenarea in Image

[support]

Hello.

we use Delphi 6 update 2 with Cadimport v6.1

TsgCADImage class was introduced in version 7. TsgDXFImage used in version 6. I'm not sure how TsgCADImage.LoadFromFile method can be called in library version 6.1. Please specify.

Alexander.

[Delphi]

Hello Alexander,

i not know that i can give you a sufficient answer. Im new in this company and we use this component already a few years. As the component here was intruduced i still not work here. But you can ask me specific i will try to answer your questions properly.

Lizenz.txt says as first line of text

February, 2007: CAD Import VCL 6.1

New features:

- AutoCAD™ DWG 2007 file format is supported.
- AutoCAD™ PROXY (including AEC) entities are supported.
- HPGL/HPGL2 file format - Bezier splines are supported.
- DXF loading has been optimized for files with big amount of blocks (layers and styles). In some cases speed is increased up to ten times.
- Rotating drawings with raster images has no limitations since now.
- When filling TsgCADGradientPolygon class objects GDI+ is used, if installed in the system.
- Enhanced Unicode symbols for TTF fonts are supported.
- All ANSI-codepages are supported.
- Bugs fixed:
- incorrect viewing of some Backward texts;
- incorrect viewing of raster images in block.

but can it be that the help file is newer maybe?

can i check the help file version anyway?

greetz

Edit: i have copy the AddScaledDXF Code sample piece out of the helpfile!

[support]

Hello.
The help file related to library version 6.1. Still presence of TsgCADImage in code looks strange. Could you please send to support@cadsofttools.com a test project that you working on with library units? Possibly you're working with newer library version while help file from the old one. Please also specify the company licensee name, we will check records in our inner database.

Alexander.