CADSoftTools

rockmover wrote: ↑

20 Jan 2023, 09:01

I am looping though all my Entities and storing them as line elements (it is what I need to do for my application).

image.Converter.Iterate(new CADImport.CADEntityProc(ReadCADEntities), null, cadParams);

However, if the line is from a dimension I want to ignore it. How can I determine if the line is real, or was created from a dimension?

Or do I somehow need to "delete" dimension objects after I load in my dwg file?

Thanks in advance!

if(entity.EntType == EntityType.Dimension)

if(entity is CADDimension).

rockmover wrote: ↑

26 Jan 2023, 06:27

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work.

I can indeed ignore dimension types if I am looping though each layer with say a foreach loop

foreach (CADImport.CADEntity entity in image.Converter.Entities)


However, I need to load all objects and more importantly blocks. So instead of looping though everything am using the Converter.Iterate as in the example files:

image.Converter.Iterate(new CADImport.CADEntityProc(ReadCADEntities), null, cadParams);

If I check for a "Dimension" entity type inside of the ReadCADEntities method, there are none ever found. I suspect that the dimensions are being converted to lines/points somehow before the switch (entity.EntType) statement in the ReadCADEntites method?

Would it maybe work if I looped through all the drawing objects, deleted any dimension entites, and then used the Convert.Iterate method?

var dimensionCollection = new List<CADDimension>();

   foreach(CADEntity ent in cadImage.CurrentLayout.Entities)
   {
    if (ent.EntType == EntityType.Dimension)
                {
     dimensionCollection.Add(ent as CADDimension);
                }
            }

support wrote: ↑

27 Jan 2023, 11:11

rockmover wrote: ↑

26 Jan 2023, 06:27

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work.

I can indeed ignore dimension types if I am looping though each layer with say a foreach loop

foreach (CADImport.CADEntity entity in image.Converter.Entities)


However, I need to load all objects and more importantly blocks. So instead of looping though everything am using the Converter.Iterate as in the example files:

image.Converter.Iterate(new CADImport.CADEntityProc(ReadCADEntities), null, cadParams);

If I check for a "Dimension" entity type inside of the ReadCADEntities method, there are none ever found. I suspect that the dimensions are being converted to lines/points somehow before the switch (entity.EntType) statement in the ReadCADEntites method?

Would it maybe work if I looped through all the drawing objects, deleted any dimension entites, and then used the Convert.Iterate method?

Hi,
CADDimension has its own entities (lines, points, etc.) stored in a block. Most likeky, you're iterating in a wrong way (iterating through a block and can't find dimensions).
Please, have a look at the code example below (checking dimensions in a current layout):

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var dimensionCollection = new List<CADDimension>();

   foreach(CADEntity ent in cadImage.CurrentLayout.Entities)
   {
    if (ent.EntType == EntityType.Dimension)
                {
     dimensionCollection.Add(ent as CADDimension);
                }
            }

Catherine.

MichealStanton wrote: ↑

17 Mar 2023, 14:17

I tried this code but not working for me.