Accessing Advance Steel object properties

[ColinHolloway]

Hi All,

 

Has anyone done any development work with obtaining Advance Steel entity properties when the entities are opened in AutoCAD or Plant 3D?

 

In the past I have written code that extracted the end points, section, width and height from members that were drawn with ProStructures, but now that my office is changing to Advance Steel, I need to be able to extract the same information from these members.

 

I can see information for these members in the Properties palette but I am yet to find how to extract this info.

 

Any and all help greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Colin Holloway

Sedgman Limited.

[BIGAL]

What does dumpit.lsp give ?

 

;;; Dump all methods and properties for selected objects              ;
;;;===================================================================; 
;;; DumpIt                                                            ; 
;;;-------------------------------------------------------------------; 
;;;===================================================================; 
(defun C:DumpIt ( / ent) 
 (while (setq ent (entsel)) 
   (vlax-Dump-Object 
     (vlax-Ename->Vla-Object (car ent)) T
   ) 
 ) 
(textpage)
 (princ) 
)

[ColinHolloway]

Results of dumpit.lsp:

 

Command: DUMPIT

Select object: ; IAcadEntity: AutoCAD Entity Interface
; Property values:
;   Application (RO) = #<VLA-OBJECT IAcadApplication 000000013fb23f10>
;   Document (RO) = #<VLA-OBJECT IAcadDocument 000000000c95bf58>
;   EntityTransparency = "ByLayer"
;   Handle (RO) = "DCB"
;   HasExtensionDictionary (RO) = 0
;   Hyperlinks (RO) = #<VLA-OBJECT IAcadHyperlinks 0000000055091028>
;   Layer = "Beams"
;   Linetype = "ByLayer"
;   LinetypeScale = 20.0
;   Lineweight = -1
;   Material = "ByLayer"
;   ObjectID (RO) = 42
;   ObjectName (RO) = "AstBeamRepr"
;   OwnerID (RO) = 43
;   PlotStyleName = "ByLayer"
;   TrueColor = #<VLA-OBJECT IAcadAcCmColor 0000000055091080>
;   Visible = -1
; Methods supported:
;   ArrayPolar (3)
;   ArrayRectangular (6)
;   Copy ()
;   Delete ()
;   GetBoundingBox (2)
;   GetExtensionDictionary ()
;   GetXData (3)
;   Highlight (1)
;   IntersectWith (2)
;   Mirror (2)
;   Mirror3D
Select object:
(3)
;   Move (2)
;   Rotate (2)
;   Rotate3D (3)
;   ScaleEntity (2)
;   SetXData (2)
;   TransformBy (1)
;   Update ()

[BIGAL]

Did you compare the dump of the two different objects ? may give some clues.