CREATE A DRAWING FROM A FILE?

[Barry Kelly]

This seems to be a developer question, so I moved this post to that part of the forum.

Barry.

[Anonymous]

Devabhai wrote:
Hello everyone,,
How do you link a drawing to an external file? On ArchiCAD you just click on "an external source" -> click "Browse" -> choose the file. How do you do this with the API?

What are the requirements? Creating a drawing from a view is simply by copying the view's guid to drawing.drawingGuid and you're done, is it the same with a file? I've looked into API_DrawingLinkInfo but it seems there is only a "Get" function and no "Set".

Thanks.

I also want to relink a drawing but there is only a get function by what I’m seeing..
It’s the same for updating drawings - I can only check the status but not to update..

That’s very limiting..

[Akos Somorjai]

Hi,

You are right, this is missing from the API. The original goal was to enable placing internal views, and those external files where you yourself write the converter (see ACAPI_Database (APIDb_StartDrawingDataID).

The solution depends on what the format of the external file is; what formats are you aiming for?

Best, Akos

[Anonymous]

Akos wrote:
Hi,

You are right, this is missing from the API. The original goal was to enable placing internal views, and those external files where you yourself write the converter (see ACAPI_Database (APIDb_StartDrawingDataID).

The solution depends on what the format of the external file is; what formats are you aiming for?

Best, Akos

I want to do it for pdf and image types..

Will the set function be available in the future?