Get Hatch Boundary from Autocad

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Hello,

is there any way to reverse that process? I would like to get boundary curves of a hatch in Dynamo. Is it possible?

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@Deniz_Maral you can use the Civil 3D Toolkit.

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Thank you very much for your reply! I forgot to mention that I use Dynamo for Revit. Is it still possible to use it? If yes, how can I select hatches?

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Hello
you can try to use GetLoopAt() method (Active X)
https://help.autodesk.com/view/OARX/2020/ENU/?guid=GUID-93E21F08-C55A-4D56-9A3B-DEADB29838C0

or using this process (Active X)

then you will have to convert the Autocad objects into ProtoType Objects (be careful when converting the Arc, need use GetBulge() method)

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Hello Cyril,

I tried that one but it opens AutoCAD and user has to select something. It would be nice to do it like in BiMorphNodes from @Thomas_Mahon
I don’t have much experience in AutoCAD API but I will try to do something. A new chapter to learn something new :slight_smile:

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here a simple example without arc (no need to get bulges)

getBoundary hatch3

code IronPython

import sys
import clr
import System
from System import *
clr.AddReference('ProtoGeometry')
from Autodesk.DesignScript.Geometry import *
from math import tan, radians
from System import Array
errorAcd = None
try:	
	import System.Runtime.InteropServices
	#import Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop
	app = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject("Autocad.Application")
	try:
		clr.AddReference('Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.Common')
		from Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.Common import AcadEntity, AcBooleanType
	except:
		stringversion = IN[0] #replace by your version if fail
		clr.AddReferenceToFileAndPath('C:/Program Files/Autodesk/AutoCAD {}/Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.Common'.format(stringversion))
		from Autodesk.AutoCAD.Interop.Common import AcadEntity, AcBooleanType
	
	AcDoc = app.ActiveDocument
	acCurDb = AcDoc.Database
	errorAcd = None
	modelSpace = AcDoc.ModelSpace
	paperSpace = AcDoc.PaperSpace
except :
	import traceback
	errorAcd = traceback.format_exc()
	
def AcDb2DPLineToDS(obj):
	coords = iter(obj.Coordinates)
	DSPoints = [Point.ByCoordinates(x,y,0) for x, y in zip(coords, coords)]
	return PolyCurve.ByPoints(DSPoints, True)
	
def getHatchBoundary():
	outDS = []
	for i in modelSpace:
		if i.ObjectName == 'AcDbHatch':
			for j in range(i.NumberOfLoops):
				plineObj = clr.Reference[System.Object]()
				i.GetLoopAt(j, plineObj)
				cadCurvesCOM = plineObj.Value
				if not hasattr(cadCurvesCOM, "__iter__"):
					cadCurvesCOM = [cadCurvesCOM]
				for c in cadCurvesCOM:
					if c is not None and c.ObjectName == "AcDbPolyline" :
						outDS.append(AcDb2DPLineToDS(c))
				
	return outDS
if errorAcd is None:
	OUT = getHatchBoundary()
else:
	OUT = errorAcd
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Merci Cyril! I will try it tomorrow. Can you still get polylines if you delete them after creating hatch?

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No, in this case need to use this method

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Merci Cyril,

if I have to open AutoCAD via that Node then it would be better to use LISP and create those boundary curves.
I thought, you can get element attributes of hatches like BiMorph gets curve attributes.

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A post was split to a new topic: Open Autocad file via Interrop (ActiveX)

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Boss @c.poupin ,
in some casses some versions of cad can not get AcDoc correctly may be because of API changes for some of cad versions , so what sohould i do to make your code work nicely with any version of cad.
Your help will be appreciated,
Thanks in advance.

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Hi,
you can try to find all progId from the registry

then you can get the app with

m_App = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject(progId)

example here

https://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2013/05/running-programmatically-a-specific-version-of-inventor.html