Generate list of all styles and settings

[BlackBox]

FWIW - There's a .NET sample for exporting Command Settings to .XML already included in the Sample folder for your installation here:

(defun c:C3dCsSample (/ folder)
  (if
    (setq folder
           (findfile
             (strcat
               (vl-registry-read
                 (strcat "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\"
                         (if vlax-user-product-key                      ; If 2013
                           (vlax-user-product-key)                      ; Use 2013 function
                           (vlax-product-key)                           ; Use legacy function
                         )
                 )
                 "ACADLOCATION"
               )
               "\\Sample\\Civil 3D API\\DotNet\\CSharp\\CommandSettingsSample"
             )
           )
      )
    (startapp "explorer" folder)
    (prompt "\n** Folder not found ** ")
  )
  (princ)
)

I've taken the liberty of compiling this sample .NET code to .NET 3.5, which should work for Civil 3D 2010 and newer. Simply rename the file from CommandSettings.txt to CommandSettings.dll

Once you've NETLOADed the assembly, simply enter in the CommandMethod name of "ExportCS"

Again, this is only a sample... For those who would prefer (as I do), to compile the source code themselves:

using System;
using System.Text;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime;
using Autodesk.Civil.ApplicationServices;
using Autodesk.Civil.Settings;
using System.Reflection;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.EditorInput;
using System.Collections;
using Autodesk.AutoCAD.Windows;
using System.IO;

namespace CommandSettingsSample {
    /// <summary>
    /// This sample illustrates the Civil 3D .NET Command Settings API
    /// It exports a list of all command settings in one Civil document as
    /// an xml document.
    /// </summary>
    public class CSSample {

        public Editor ed;
        public StringBuilder xml;
        public String file;

        /// <summary>
        /// Command to export command settings.
        /// </summary>
        [CommandMethod("ExportCS")]
        public void ExportCommandSettings() {
            var sfd = new System.Windows.Forms.SaveFileDialog();
            sfd.Filter = "XML Files (*.xml)|*.xml";
            sfd.DefaultExt = "xml";
            sfd.FileName = "cmd_settings.xml";           
            sfd.Title = "Export command settings";
           
            if (sfd.ShowDialog() == System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK) {
                file = sfd.FileName;
            } else {
                return;
            }

            CivilDocument doc = Autodesk.Civil.ApplicationServices.CivilApplication.ActiveDocument;
            ed = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument.Editor;
            xml = new StringBuilder();


            // Get all the settings defined in AeccDbMgd using Reflection
            Type[] types = new Type[] { typeof(Autodesk.Civil.Settings.SettingsRoot) };
            Assembly aeccdbmgd = typeof(CivilDocument).Module.Assembly;
            Type[] types2 = aeccdbmgd.GetTypes();
            foreach (Type t in types2) {
                // A command setting's class name contains "SettingsCmd", and is derived from SettingsAmbient (or
                // derived from a child of SettingsAmbient) 
                if (t.Name.Contains("SettingsCmd")
                    && (t.BaseType.Name.Contains("SettingsAmbient")
                    || t.BaseType.BaseType.Name.Contains("SettingsAmbient"))) {
                    ed.WriteMessage("Command Setting found: " + t.Name + "\n");
                    xml.Append( String.Format("<CommandSetting name=\"{0}\">\n", t.Name));

                    try {

                        ConstructorInfo conInfo = t.GetConstructor(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance, null, types, null);
                        object[] s4 = new object[] { doc.Settings };

                        SettingsAmbient settingsAmbient = (SettingsAmbient)conInfo.Invoke(s4);
                        // This gets the properties of the class and adds it to the xml string
                        GetPropsOfObj(settingsAmbient, 2);

                    } catch (System.Exception e) {
                        ed.WriteMessage("Error: " + e.Message + "\n" + e.GetType() + "\n");
                    }

                    xml.Append( "</CommandSetting>\n");
                }
            }

            using (var sw = new StreamWriter(file)) {
                sw.Write(xml.ToString());
                sw.Close();
            }
            ed.WriteMessage("DONE\n");
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the properites for an object using Reflection
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="obj">The object to inspect</param>
        /// <param name="tab">Tab level for xml indentation</param>
        private void GetPropsOfObj(Object obj, int tab) {
            String space = " ".PadRight(tab);
            Type type = obj.GetType();
            PropertyInfo[] properties = type.GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance);
            foreach (PropertyInfo propInfo in properties) {

                object prop = type.InvokeMember(propInfo.Name, BindingFlags.GetProperty, null, obj, new object[0]);

                if (prop.GetType().Name.Contains("Settings")) {
                    xml.Append(String.Format(space + "<Property name=\"{0}\">\n", propInfo.Name));
                    GetPropsOfObj(prop, tab + 3);
                    xml.Append( space + "</Property>\n");
                } else if (prop.GetType().Name.Contains("Property")) {
                    Type propType = prop.GetType();
                    object val = propType.InvokeMember("Value", BindingFlags.GetProperty, null, prop, new object[0]);
                    xml.Append( String.Format(space + "<Property name=\"{0}\" value=\"{1}\"/>\n", propInfo.Name, val.ToString()));
                } else {
                    ed.WriteMessage("Didn't process: {0} {1}\n", propInfo.Name, propInfo.PropertyType.ToString());
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

HTH

[BlackBox]

Forgot to mention, that the resultant .XML file may not be properly read by simply double clicking on it, as (in my case using an OOTB .DWT to test), some of the string information was written to file as:

<snip>

  <Property name="NameFormat">
     <Property name="SheetFile" value="<[View Frame Group Name(CP)]> - (<[Next Counter(CP)]>)"/>
     <Property name="Layout" value="Sheet - (<[Next Counter(CP)]>)"/>
     <Property name="MatchLine" value="ML - (<[Next Counter(CP)]>)"/>
     <Property name="ViewFrame" value="VF - (<[Next Counter(CP)]>)"/>
     <Property name="ViewFrameGroup" value="VFG - <[View Frame Group Alignment Name(CP)]> - (<[Next Counter(CP)]>)"/>
  </Property>

<snip>

... Which causes the XML file to be unreadable to non-XML enabled readers, such as Visual Studio, Notepad++, etc..

[sandiegophil]

RenderMan,

I have tried several times with no luck. this is the message i am receiving.

Command: netload
Cannot load assembly. Error details: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not
load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Users\pendrizz\Desktop\CommandSettings.dll'
or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from
HRESULT: 0x80131515)
File name: 'file:///C:\Users\pendrizz\Desktop\CommandSettings.dll' --->
System.NotSupportedException: An attempt was made to load an assembly from a
network location which would have caused the assembly to be sandboxed in
previous versions of the .NET Framework. This release of the .NET Framework
does not enable CAS policy by default, so this load may be dangerous. If this
load is not intended to sandbox the assembly, please enable the
loadFromRemoteSources switch. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=155569
for more information.
at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly._nLoad(AssemblyN ame fileName, String
codeBase, Evidence assemblySecurity, RuntimeAssembly locationHint,
StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean throwOnFileNotFound, Boolean
forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoadAsse mblyName(AssemblyName
assemblyRef, Evidence assemblySecurity, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean
forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.InternalLoadFrom (String assemblyFile,
Evidence securityEvidence, Byte[] hashValue, AssemblyHashAlgorithm
hashAlgorithm, Boolean forIntrospection, Boolean suppressSecurityChecks,
StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom(String assemblyFile)
at Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime.ExtensionLoader.Load(Stri ng fileName)
at loadmgd()

[sandiegophil]

caddcop,

I contacted them and was told that they do not support C3D 2012 as of yet.

thanks for all your help.

Phil

[caddcop]

In this zip file is the xml from that tool. I added a line to assign a stylesheet to it and have included the stylesheet in the zip file. If you open the xml file in Internet Explorer, Firefox or even Excel, you will see some tables of the first few nodes of the xml file.
The statistics from Notepad++ are as follows:
2,087,955 bytes
2,051,385 non blank characters
225,968 words
18286 lines
That's a lot of data.
This is from one of the NCS Imperial Templates delivered with 2011
BTW, this is a very incomplete and preliminary stylesheet. Ideally, the various data that is setup using similar formats can be processed via a shared xsl template.
To read files from 2009 or earlier or 2012 and later would require some other tool.
It would appear that the dll from the other reply creates a different xml file. I wonder if there are settings in the functions, properties or methods that would correct of modify the output?

[BIGAL]

Hi Renderman same problem get the long error message 2013 it may be something not loaded as we are externally controlled on what turns up on our pc's could it be a missing library file. We did have a problem and had to load a new .net library for something else.

[BlackBox]

Unfortunately, as I stated above, I compiled this code to .NET 3.5 for 2010 database format (which covers 2010, 2011, and 2012). 2013 is .NET 4.0, and requires an assembly reference to AcCoreMgd.dll, and may or may not include an assembly reference to XAML.dll (.NET 4.0 includes this automatically in new Visual Studio projects in my template).

I do not have Civil 3D 2013 installed, so I am missing the appropriate references to AecBaseMgd.dll, and AeccDbMgd.dll (if memory serves) for 2013 specifically to compile, hence the source code wing posted above for others to compile.

HTH

[Jeff_M]

I have tried several times with no luck. this is the message i am receiving.

Command: netload
Cannot load assembly. Error details: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not
load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Users\pendrizz\Desktop\CommandSettings.dll'

Phil,
That message comes from 1, of 2, reasons that I am aware of. One being that you tried to load it from a network location, which it doesn't appear you are doing. The other is that you did not Unblock the ZIP file before extracting the dll. This is the most common problem, especially with Win7 since it likes to protect you from yourself so well. Anytime a file is downloaded, either from the 'net itself, or via an email attachment, if Win7 senses the file contains exe or dll files, Win7 will Block the files from running. To fix that, before any files are extracted(if a zip) or run (in the case of a renamed file), right-click the file, select Properties, at the bottom of the General tab should be a button labeled Unblock. Click that, close the properties, then extract the files (make sure to delete any files previously extracted first).

[Jeff_M]

Renderman, for the OP's wish for the Styles to also be output, there is another sample provided which can be modified to do just that. Look at the Compare Styles sample, it has code to regenerate an ArrayList of all styles which can then be used to create an XML file (I've done this for a company) or any other format file (txt, csv, etc.).

As for the Command Settings sample not outputting correctly formatted XML code, I used this as an excuse to learn how to use the .NET XML Document tools. Shoot me an email if you want more info.

[BIGAL]

Did the unblock etc netloaded now no error messages but nothing happens when you run "exportcs" "unknown command"