How to use AcadLayout.GetPlotDeviceNames in .Net?

Sep 12, 2012

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I am using AutoCAD ActiveX interface from C# (or using VB.NET) and I need to get the list of plot devices returned from the method GetPlotDeviceNames()

The generic System.Object returned from GetPlotDeviceNames can be cast to an array of strings to access the name for each plot device.

Here is an example:

[CommandMethod("GetPlotDeviceNames")]

public void GetPlotDeviceNames()

{

AcadApplication acadApp = Application.AcadApplication

as AcadApplication;

AcadLayout layout = acadApp.ActiveDocument.ActiveLayout;

string[] devices = (string[])layout.GetPlotDeviceNames();

foreach (string device in devices)

{

Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.Editor.WriteMessage(

"\nPlot Device: " + device);

}

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2 responses to “How to use AcadLayout.GetPlotDeviceNames in .Net?”

Jason Huffine

September 12, 2012

Just curious… is there a pure .Net API way without the ActiveX interface?

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Philippe

September 12, 2012

Yes there is, and I would say if you are running from a .Net dll in process with AutoCAD, there is no point on relying on the ActiveX API for that. But thing is we are migrating our old knowledge base once restricted to ADN members to that public devblog, so you might see appearing articles that are a bit outdated, although useful…
In .Net you would do as follow:
Editor ed = Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.Editor;
// Assign default return values
string devname = “”;
PlotSettingsValidator psv = PlotSettingsValidator.Current;
StringCollection devlist = psv.GetPlotDeviceList();
for (int i = 0; i < devlist.Count; i++)
{
ed.WriteMessage(“\n{0} {1}”, i + 1, devlist[i]);
}

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