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Manage Drawing Document Line Styles Example (C#)

This example shows how to manage the line styles of a drawing document.

//---------------------------------------------------------------
// Preconditions:
// 1. Verify that the specified drawing document template exists.
// 2. Ensure that c:\temp exists.
// 3. Open an Immediate Window.
//
// Postconditions:
// 1. Opens a new drawing.
// 2. Adds line styles.
// 3. Saves lines styles.
// 4. Deletes a line style.
// 5. Loads saved line styles, replacing existing line styles.
// 6. Inspect the Immediate window.
//
// NOTE: 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("C:\\ProgramData\\SOLIDWORKS\\SOLIDWORKS 2016\\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
            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;
    }
}



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