Autocad Vba Text Width Factor Manual Creation Process

It would be tremendously helpful to me if you could give an explanatory example of how to: Create a new layout, add a page-setup with plot-settings and then either delete the default viewport and create a new one or possible change the default viewport.

Within the newly created layouts I needed to set some of the general Plot setting, mainly Paper size and Plot style table.

Its clearly an area thats of general interest many people need to automate the creation and configuration of layout tabs but its not an area Ive spend much time looking at, myself.

In the end I managed to put something together that works well once again with a fair amount of help from the online documentation and is hopefully fairly easy to understand: Ive done my best to implement extension methods that should be useful for people in other contexts, which has helped keep the command implementation nice and succinct.

Heres the C code: using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Geometry; using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime; using System; namespace LayoutCreation public static class Extensions Reverses the order of the X and Y properties of a Point2d.

The Point2d to pad.

The padded Point3d.

From looking through the code you can see it does pretty much what Thomas was asking for: after creating the layout and setting the page size, plot settings table and a device, we then modify the viewport (after creating it, if viewport creation on layout creation isnt specified in AutoCADs OPTIONS) to contain the extents of our database with a little padding so that its not too tight.

After all is done we then zoom to the extents and then with an additional.7X again, to leave some padding.

Autocad Vba Text Width Factor Manual Creation Process

All in all it seems to work pretty much as the manual creation process does, the advantage being you can tweak the code for your own purposes, of course.

One area I know needs a little work is the extents for 3D viewports: ideally Id project the model (or just the bounding box, if lazy) along the view direction to the XY plane right now Im just lopping off the Z coordinate, which is a bit lazy.

Update: Thanks to Parrish Husband for pointing out an opportunity to streamline the code slightly.

I went ahead and made the change, and took the opportunity to fix a bug I stumbled across where I tried to fit the viewport to the extents of an empty drawing.