Manage Drawing Document Line Styles Example (C#)
This example shows how to manage the line styles of a drawing document.
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Preconditions:
// 1. Ensure that the specified drawing document template exists.
// 2. Create c:\temp.
// 3. Rename the namespace of this macro to match your C# project name.
// 4. Open an Immediate Window.
// 5. Run this macro.
//
// Postconditions:
// 1. Inspect the Immediate Window.
// 2. Line styles are saved to c:\temp\styles.sldlin.
//------------------------------------
using
SolidWorks.Interop.sldworks;
using
SolidWorks.Interop.swconst;
using
System;
using
System.Diagnostics;
namespace
DrawingLineStyles_CSharp.csproj
{
partial
class
SolidWorksMacro
{
DrawingDoc
Part;
bool
boolstatus;
int
longstatus;
public
void Main()
{
string
def = null;
string
name = null;
Part = (DrawingDoc)swApp.NewDocument("<SolidWorks_install_dir>\\data\\Templates\\drawing.drwdot",
2, 0.2794, 0.4318);
swApp.ActivateDoc2("Draw1 -
Sheet1",
false, ref
longstatus);
printData("Line Style Data at
Start",
"");
def = "B,1.2,-0.2,2,-0.1,2";
name = "NewOne";
boolstatus = Part.AddLineStyle(name, def);
printData("Line Style Data
After Add",
"");
object
names = null;
string[]
styleNames = new
string[3];
styleNames[0] = "NewOne";
styleNames[1] = "CHAIN";
styleNames[2] = "PHANTOM";
names = styleNames;
// Save line styles, replacing
already saved line styles
boolstatus = Part.SaveLineStyles("c:\\temp\\styles",
names, true);
printData("Line Style Data
saved to file ",
"c:\\temp\\styles");
// Delete a line style
boolstatus = Part.DeleteLineStyle("NewOne",
"STITCH");
printData("Line Style Data
After Delete",
"");
// Load saved line styles,
replacing existing line styles
boolstatus = Part.LoadLineStyles("c:\\temp\\styles",
names, true);
printData("Line Style Data
Imported from file",
"");
}
public
void
printData(string
title, string
file)
{
object
names = null;
object
types = null;
string[]
namesArr = null;
string[]
typesArr = null;
int
i = 0;
bool
stat = false;
Debug.Print("-------------------------");
Debug.Print(title);
Debug.Print("-------------------------");
if
(string.IsNullOrEmpty(file))
{
stat = Part.GetLineStyles(out
names, out
types);
}
else
{
stat = swApp.GetLineStyles(file,
out names,
out types);
}
namesArr = (string[])names;
typesArr = (string[])types;
if
(stat)
{
for
(i = 0; i <= typesArr.GetUpperBound(0); i++)
{
Debug.Print(i
+ " " +
namesArr[i] + " "
+ typesArr[i]);
}
}
else
{
Debug.Print("Error
in printData");
}
}
public
SldWorks
swApp;
}
}