Blockview Control not displaying drawings properly

[jbuzbee]

please see attached:
Commands_DwgPreview is the lisp and odcl lisp info
DWGPreview.jpg is a preview of a drawing with an xref "base" floor plan
DWGPreviewXREF.jpg is a preview of the xref
and XREF.jpg is a screen shot of the xref in AutoCAD

OpenDCL 8.0.0.8
AutoCAD 2015
Win 8

Thanks

[Fred Tomke]

Hi,

not sure, whether I'm right or not, but:

• dwgpreview shows a thumbnail of the vport content at the last saving progress ( that I'm sure )
• blockview does only show the content of the selected drawing. I'm afraid that connected xrefs are not shown

Regards, Fred

[jbuzbee]

Oh well - thanks Fred

[owenwengerd]

I believe Fred is correct about xrefs. Xref resolution is not done in the DBX context; it is done by the host application (in AutoCAD, the editor). The DWG Preview on the other hand is generated when the drawing is saved and stored in the file, so it will represent the visual state of the drawing when it was last saved.

[jbuzbee]

No worries, I was unaware of those limitations.  I thought it would be cool to have a drawing previewer, something with a higher resolution than the dwgpreview.  So you use DBX to access "closed" drawings too?

jb

[owenwengerd]

So you use DBX to access "closed" drawings too?

Assuming that by "closed" you mean "not open in the editor", yes.

[jbuzbee]

cool  8)