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I am creating a vb program to set up sheet sets. I can create the sheet set , add subsets, set the location of new sheets, however I can not figure out how to set the template or layout. The documentation is a lacking. I need an example of setting the dwt file path and the layout. If anyone can help it would be great.

 

Have you looked at the ..Autocad
2005\Sample\ActiveX\SheetSetVBA\SheetSetVBA.dvb code? There's a class in
there called SheetSet, and a method called CreateSheetSet that should help
with setting the DWT file path.

For adding a layout, turn to the AddSheet method. Part of the code is copied
here (my comments are to the right):

'Create a sheet based on a layout
Dim layoutRef As New AcSmAcDbLayoutReference

layoutRef.InitNew SheetSet 'SheetSet is an IAcSmSheetSet object,
must "initialize" the new layout to the SheetSet

'Set layout name and file name
layoutRef.SetName layoutName 'layoutName is the name
of the drawing's layout
layoutRef.SetFileName layoutDwgPath 'layoutDwgPath is the path
to the drawing

'Import a sheet based on a layout into the category
Set newSheet = parentCategory.ImportSheet(layoutRef)

'Now insert the sheet
parentCategory.InsertComponent newSheet, Nothing

Hope this helps. If not, post more questions. We track our drawings and
title information in a database, which we then use to generate transmittal
letters and stuff. I got stuff hooked up to generate sheets using title
information stored in the database, and to synch the titles in the whole
sheet set if they change on the drawings/database.

Ben Rand
CAD Manager
CEntry Constructors & Engineers

set , add subsets, set the location of new sheets, however I can not figure
out how to set the template or layout. The documentation is a lacking. I
need an example of setting the dwt file path and the layout. If anyone can
help it would be great.