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Autodesk Developer Network, April 2010
The Wine – And More…
§Obtain point placement references from a family
§Import DWG as link
§Identify if import instance is linked
§Rehost a form
§Rebar API changes
§Associate array dimension to label in families
§Refresh active view
§Create sloped wall on mass face
§Rename and replace a family parameter
§Reporting parameters
§Extract GUID from a Parameter
§SuspendUpdating applies to Parameter.Set
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•With the new API, it is now possible to obtain the point placement references in the loaded family symbol or placed family instance.
•We can imports a DWG into the document as a link.
•We can identify if import instance is linked to an external file.
•Overloaded Rehost() method allows a form to a new edge, face, curve, or sketch plane.
•The API refreshes the display of the active view during the execution of your command so users can see incremental updates to their model.
•API contains method to create a new instance of a face wall on the sloped face of a mass.
•Renaming and Replacing family params was a gap left over last year and now has been included. And this allows API users to rename a parameter and also allows to replace shared parameters with family parameters and vice versa.
•Property which identifies if the parameter is a reporting parameter. If true, the parameter is associated to a dimension value and cannot be modified. If false, the parameter is a driving parameter and if associated to a dimension, can modify the dimension it labels. We also have methods to change reporting parameters to non-reporting.
•Dedicated method to identify if a given parameter is shared parameter and if yes, extract the GUID out of it.
•SuspendUpdating performance improvements now apply to Parameter.Set by default. By using the new constructor for SuspendUpdating which takes a boolean suspendForParameterSet, you can turn off this option.