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This second and concluding part answers some commonly asked questions about Drawing Sheets:<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n <\/UL> As you might be already aware, objects are always added to their collections in Solid Edge. Whereas manually it may seem you have added a sheet to the Draft document, in reality it is added to the sheets collection which in turn belongs to the document. <\/SPAN><\/P> So to add a sheet, access its collection first. <\/SPAN>The declarations for this look like:<\/P><\/p>\n and the assignments are:<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n The full syntax for the AddSheet method has 4 optional arguments using which you can specify a sheet name, and the section you want to add to – Working, Background or even inside a drawing view as discussed in previous part. Also, the exact position among the currently available sheets where you want the new sheet to appear can be specified.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n Note that in a Draft document, a Sheet is always available and current or active. This sheet can be accessed directly using:<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n Other sheets can be activated using an index or the name. <\/SPAN><\/P> A similar style can be adopted for deleting a sheet:<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n while the number of sheets can be counted using the Count property:<\/P><\/p>\n and the same property can be used to count the Working and Background sheets separately.<\/P><\/p>\n The various properties of a sheet like its size, type, etc. can be determined via SheetSetup:<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n A single sheet can be exported to various formats like DWG, DXF, IGS or PDF. The draft document’s SaveAs method does this with the option set to Active Sheet Only.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n To set this option, select File > Save As and in the Save As dialog, select DXF from the Save As type list. Then click the Options button.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n In the Solid Edge to AutoCAD Translation Wizard that appears, click Next >.<\/SPAN><\/P> In the Sheet Options panel, select the Active sheet only option.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n Finish the wizard and run the program. Since the option is now set as active sheet in the INI file, the automation program takes this current setting and saves the current document to DXF with only the contents of the currently active sheet.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n You can also modify the INI file programmatically using the .Net API before calling the SaveAs method.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n In case of a PDF export, it is possible to set global parameters:<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n seDoc.SaveAs(“D:FolderFileName.PDF”)<\/PRE><\/p>\n The working and background sheets can be shown\/hidden as below:<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n Dim seWorkingSection As Section = seSections.WorkingSection seWorkingSection.Activate<\/STRONG>() seWorkingSection.Deactivate<\/STRONG>() If you want to learn the basics of how to set up a Visual Studio project to try out all the mentioned APIs, here is a series of in-depth tutorials<\/A> where each step illustrated with images.<\/P><\/p>\n![\"SESheetsInfographics.png\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/SESheetsInfographics-3.png\" "\\"SESheetsInfographics.png\\"")
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\nDim seApp As SolidEdgeFramework.Application
\nDim seDoc As SolidEdgeDraft.DraftDocument
\nDim seSheets As SolidEdgeDraft.Sheets<\/STRONG>
\nDim seSheet As SolidEdgeDraft.Sheet<\/PRE><\/p>\nseApp = Marshal.GetActiveObject(“SolidEdge.Application”)
\nseDoc = seApp.ActiveDocument
\nseSheets = seDoc.Sheets<\/STRONG>
\nseSheet = seSheets.Add()<\/PRE><\/p>\nPublic Function AddSheet( _
\n Optional<\/STRONG> ByVal Name As Variant, _
\n Optional<\/STRONG> ByVal SectionType As SheetSectionTypeConstants = igWorkingSection, _
\n Optional<\/STRONG> ByVal InsertBefore As Variant, _
\n Optional<\/STRONG> ByVal InsertAfter As Variant _
\n) As Sheet<\/PRE><\/p>\nseSheet =seDoc.ActiveSheet<\/STRONG><\/PRE><\/p>\n
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<\/span> Note that the first sheet has an index of 1 and not 0:<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\nseSheets.Item(1).Activate<\/STRONG>()
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\nseSheets.Item(“GA”).Activate<\/STRONG>()<\/PRE><\/p>\n![\"TipIcon.png\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/TipIcon-78.png\" "\\"TipIcon.png\\"")
<\/span> and that the sheet name is case-sensitive.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\nseSheets.Item(1).Delete<\/STRONG>()
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\nseSheets.Item(“GA”).Delete<\/STRONG>()<\/PRE><\/p>\nDim seSheets As Sheets = seDoc.Sheets
\nDim SheetCount As Integer = seSheets.Count
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\nMessageBox.Show(SheetCount.ToString & ” sheets in active document”)<\/PRE><\/p>\n![\"Sheets9.png\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/Sheets9-1.png\" "\\"Sheets9.png\\"")
<\/span><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\nDim seSections As Sections = seDoc.Sections
\nDim WorkingSection As Section = seSections.WorkingSection
\nDim seWSheets As SectionSheets = WorkingSection.Sheets
\nDim WSCount As Integer = seWSheets.Count<\/STRONG>
\nMessageBox.Show(WSCount.ToString & ” working sheets.”)<\/PRE><\/p>\n![\"Sheets4.png\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/Sheets4-1.png\" "\\"Sheets4.png\\"")
<\/span><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\nDim seSheet As Sheet = seSheets.Item(“GA”)
\nMessageBox.Show(seSheet.SheetSetup<\/STRONG>.SheetSizeOption.ToString)<\/PRE><\/p>\n![\"SaveAs1.png\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/SaveAs1-1.png\" "\\"SaveAs1.png\\"")
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<\/span><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\nseApp.SetGlobalParameter<\/STRONG>(SolidEdgeFramework.ApplicationGlobalConstants.seApplicationGlobalDraftSaveAsPDFSheetOptions, SolidEdgeConstants.DraftSaveAsPDFSheetOptionsConstants.seDraftSaveAsPDFSheetOptionsConstantsAllSheets)<\/p>\n
Dim seSections As Sections = seDoc.Sections<\/p>\n
\nDim seBackgroundSection As Section = seSections.BackgroundSection<\/p>\n
\nseBackgroundSection.Activate<\/STRONG>()<\/p>\n
\nseBackgroundSection.Deactivate<\/STRONG>()<\/PRE><\/p>\n
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