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AutoCAD and HTML - Page
III
Time for another wee bit of a break
for me. By sleuth of hand and the use of threats to various appendages
stuck on his body, I finally conned someone else into writing the next
section for me. Say hi to David Stein everyone, ("Hi Dave!!")
If you don't know Dave, well he is the gentleman responsible for "DSX
Tools" and the "Visual Lisp Bible." You can find his new
permanent home at http://www.dsxcad.com.
Pop along as it's well worth the visit. (just check for your wife and
wallet when you leave.)
Okey dokey. Dave is the author of this
nice little program written using Visual Lisp that will not only write
the Layer Names to an HTML file, but will also write the Layer
properties and status. Let's have a look at the coding.
Copy and paste this into Notepad and
save it as "DumpLayers.lsp."
;; This
example involves the task of producing an HTML report of all
;; layers in the current drawing, including their properties
(color, linetype, etc.)
;; and opening the report in a web browser after completion.
;; When loaded, the command is DUMPLAYERS.
(defun C:DUMPLAYERS
( / acad doc dwg layers name col ltp lwt pst onoff frz dat
path olist outfile output)
;load the VL extensions
(vl-load-com)
;get reference to AutoCAD
(setq acad (vlax-get-acad-object)
;reference the drawing
doc (vla-get-activedocument
acad)
;get
the drawing name
dwg (vla-get-name
doc)
;get
the drawing path
path (vla-get-path
doc)
;get the
layers cpllection
layers (vla-get-layers doc)
);setq
;process each layer
(vlax-for each layers
;get the layer
name
(setq name (vla-get-name each)
;get the layer color
col (itoa (vla-get-color each))
;get the linetype
ltp (vla-get-linetype each)
;get the lineweight
lwt (itoa (vla-get-lineweight each))
;get the plotstyle
pst (vla-get-plotstylename each)
;on-off status
onoff (if (= :vlax-true (vla-get-layeron each))
"ON" "OFF")
;frozen-thawed status
frz (if (= :vlax-true (vla-get-freeze each))
"FROZEN" "THAWED")
;list them
dat (list name col ltp lwt pst onoff frz)
;add to main list
olist (cons dat olist)
);setq
); vlax-for
;release all objects
(vlax-release-object layers)
(vlax-release-object doc)
(vlax-release-object acad)
;create the HTML file
(cond
( olist
(setq outfile (strcat (vl-filename-base dwg)
".htm"))
(setq outfile (strcat path outfile))
(cond
( (setq output (open
outfile "w"))
(write-line
"<html>" output)
(write-line
"<head><title>" output)
(write-line (strcat
"Layer Dump: " dwg) output)
(write-line
"</title></head><body>" output)
(write-line (strcat
"<b>Drawing: " dwg "</b><br>")
output)
(write-line
"<table border=1>" output)
(foreach
layset olist
(write-line "<tr>" output)
(foreach
prop layset
(write-line (strcat "<td>" prop
"</td>") output)
)
(write-line
"</tr>" output)
);
foreach layer set
(write-line
"</table></body></html>" output)
(close output)
(setq output
nil)
;inform the user
(princ "\nReport finished! Opening in
browser...")
;open the HTML report in the
browser
(vl-cmdf "_.browser" outfile)
)
( T (princ "\nUnable to open output file.") )
)
)
( T (princ "\nUnable to get layer table
information.") )
)
);defun
(princ) |
Load and run this routine. The HTML
file should automatically open in your browser.
Hey, is that not nice? All your layers, layer properties and status all
nicely tabulated in a report! By the way, if you are not very clued up
on Visual Lisp, there are a whole set of Tutorials posted on AfraLisp
that you can use to familiarise yourself with this powerful addition to
the AutoLisp language.
Okay, one more page to go. (phew.)
Now let's look at AutoCAD and HTML using Visual Basic. (Oooh, I can
hear you say.)
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