Refresh all layouts with API

MudratDetector — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:54:34 GMT

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Refreshing all layouts is a step in a larger task that will ultimately produce a set of .pdf files of each Architectural layout in a model full of mixed discipline layouts. I started with code found here.

With my edits, I have this:

void RefreshAllLayoutBooks() { API_DatabaseUnId *dbases = NULL; API_DatabaseInfo db_orig, dbLayoutBook; GSErrCode err; Int32 nDbases = 0; Int32 intCount = 0; err = ACAPI_Database(APIDb_GetCurrentDatabaseID, &db_orig, NULL); if(err != NoError) return; err = ACAPI_Database(APIDb_GetLayoutDatabasesID, &dbases, NULL); if (err == NoError) { nDbases = BMpGetSize(reinterpret_cast<GSPtr>(dbases)) / sizeof(API_DatabaseUnId); for (Int32 ii = 0; ii < nDbases; ++ii) { BNZeroMemory(&dbLayoutBook, sizeof(API_DatabaseInfo)); dbLayoutBook.typeID = APIWind_LayoutID; dbLayoutBook.databaseUnId = dbases[ii]; intCount = intCount ++; GS::UniString strMsg; GS::UniString strBlank; if (intCount < 10) { strBlank = " "; } else if (intCount < 100) { strBlank = " "; } else if (intCount < 1000) { strBlank = " "; } err = ACAPI_Database(APIDb_GetDatabaseInfoID, &dbLayoutBook, NULL); if (err == NoError) { if (dbLayoutBook.ref != GS::UniString("")) { GS::UniString strSheetName = dbLayoutBook.ref; if (strSheetName.GetSubstring(0, 1) == "A") { strMsg = strBlank + GS::UniString::Printf("%d", intCount); strMsg = "..." + strMsg + " " + strSheetName; ACAPI_WriteReport(strMsg, false); } } else { strMsg = strBlank + GS::UniString::Printf("%d", intCount) + GS::UniString(" N.O.T.H.I.N.G"); strMsg = "+++" + strMsg; ACAPI_WriteReport(strMsg, false); } } } ACAPI_Database(APIDb_ChangeCurrentDatabaseID, &dbLayoutBook, nullptr); ACAPI_Database(APIDb_RebuildCurrentDatabaseID); } if (dbases != NULL) BMpFree(reinterpret_cast<GSPtr>(dbases)); }

The output of the above code is:

... 2 A002 ... 5 A001 +++ 7 N.O.T.H.I.N.G +++ 8 N.O.T.H.I.N.G ... 131 A123 ... 132 A200 ... 133 A311 ... 134 A110a ... 135 A101 etc.

This confirms for me that I am on the right track for capturing only the Architectural sheets in the model. And capturing/not processing a sheet that has no discipline assigned to it. [Not sure what that is all about yet]. The number between the "..." and the sheet number is only a sequential number that is incremented as I examine each layout for inclusion in the set of Architectural sheets.

I am having trouble understanding why the update of the layouts with:

ACAPI_Database(APIDb_RebuildCurrentDatabaseID)

does not occur. I am verifying the update by adding a couple of random walls and verifying success of this process with a manual update.

my problem:

I believe I have not captured the proper database ID and/or have not set it as current. Maybe the choice of functions used is not correct. I am not sure. Any direction provided would be helpful.

Thanks,

chris

Re: Refresh all layouts with API

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