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xys1995

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How to create a polygon viewport in autocad's layout?
« on: November 11, 2016, 03:47:52 AM »
I want to create a polygon viewport in a layout using a closed polyline in modelspace,the entities included in the polyline area will be displayed in the viewport.
can anybody give me some information?
Using c# to create the viewport.
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n.yuan

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Re: How to create a polygon viewport in autocad's layout?
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2016, 02:08:30 PM »
Polyline viewport is created if Viewport.NonrectClipEntityId property is assigned to a polyline's ObjectId, and set Viewport.NonRectClipOn property to "true". So, simply create a viewportand a polyline, then set the 2 Viewport properties. You are done.

The code shown here assumes that there are already a viewport and a polyline in a layout. The code simply combine the both to be a non-rectangular viewport:

Code: [Select]
[CommandMethod("MyPort")]
public static void RunDocCommand()
{
    var doc = CadApp.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
    var ed = doc.Editor;

    var vportId = SelectEntity(
        ed, typeof(Viewport), "\nSelect a regular viewport:");
    var polyId = SelectEntity(
        ed, typeof(Polyline), "\nSelect a polyline inside the viewport:");

    if (vportId.IsNull || polyId.IsNull)
    {
        ed.WriteMessage("\n*Cancel*\n");
        return;
    }

    using (var tran = doc.TransactionManager.StartTransaction())
    {
        Viewport vport = (Viewport)tran.GetObject(vportId, OpenMode.ForWrite);
        vport.NonRectClipEntityId = polyId;
        vport.NonRectClipOn = true;

        tran.Commit();
    }
}

private static ObjectId SelectEntity(
    Editor ed, Type entType, string selectionMsg)
{
    var opt = new PromptEntityOptions(selectionMsg);
    opt.SetRejectMessage("\nInvalid selection.");
    opt.AddAllowedClass(entType, true);

    var res = ed.GetEntity(opt);
    if (res.Status == PromptStatus.OK)
        return res.ObjectId;
    else
        return ObjectId.Null;
}

For rectangular viewport, the NonRectClipEntityId property is set to ObjectId.Null.

HTH