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Pyautocad works on active drawings. EZDXF library is your choice for extracting the data without using AutoCAD. Next video will be covering the ezdxf library

pyautocad is specifically designed to interface with AutoCAD, and it relies on AutoCAD's COM interface for automation. Therefore, it cannot be directly used with QCAD, as QCAD does not support the same COM interface that AutoCAD does. I hope it makes sense

ezdxf is another library works with dxf files and therefore it works for any CAD programmes

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Yes it does

@@ahmedskullab thanks!

No problems

@@donnygarnett6543 thank you

Thank you, glad you think so

Thank you :)

Glad you think so!

You are welcome

That's true, ezdxf has this better advantage. I will cover it in another video.

@@ahmedskullab kindly make a little big automation beyond line , circle, rectangle, layers

Thank you 🙏

Ok, thanks

If the clone software use COM interface, you need to test it with a simple script to find out.

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Great question! pyautocad requires an API that's not available in AutoCAD LT, you can use the ezdxf library as an alternative. ezdxf allows you to create and modify DXF files, which you can then open in AutoCAD LT. I plan to do similar content but for ezdxf library.

bad tts 😔, continue to improve, thank you for the comment! AI is used to generate some content though.

Python with the ezdxf library can automate complex and repetitive AutoCAD tasks. One challenge at a time, you will be impressed of the results.

Yes its visual studio, go to menu -> view -> appearance -> Activity Bar Position -> Default

@ahmedskullab thank you very much sir!!

@@ahmedskullab i finally got a chance to change the appearance, but when i select view and scroll down appearance is not listed. this is supposed to be in the View dropdown menu, right? thank you in advance for your help!

Thank you!

Its via COM, I am preparing a video to explain how all this work

@@ahmedskullab thanks brother

consider using AutoLISP

@@ahmedskullab consider using LEE-Mac's autolisp library. Also, if it's a dynamic block within a dynamic block, you'd need some fancy ssget/entget function that would separate each blocks. Source: I have my own autocad/autolisp library.

the line ezdxf.readfile() is doing it, then I used save as to doc.saveas() to write the work in a new file

I have not tried it with Civil 3d before! it might work. PyAutoCAD is a Python library designed to interact with AutoCAD via its COM API. to automate tasks in Civil 3D using Python, you might need to explore other Python libraries such as use of .NET API

@@ahmedskullab Yes it works with civil3d, however I believe it only works with autocad objects. So it worn't with pipe networks, surfaces, etc.... I am just getting started but I believe that this is accurate.

Surely you could just load this pyautocad lib into a civil 3d DYNAMO “user” node (can’t remember the correct term for the custom python nodes) and doing it is this way you most likely could automate most of the first manual starting steps shown in the video with the csv import/export nodes in the default dynamo libraries or just selecting the data properties directly in the dynamo script without having to leave civil 3d. Haven’t played around with it too much, and there is way more tuts YT for revit dynamo python node creation but principles are exactly the same.

Pleasure

Use “pip install pandas” 🐼 in the terminal to install the library pypi.org/project/pandas/

I will do once got the chance to

import pandas as pd import win32com.client from datetime import datetime, timedelta # Connect to Outlook outlook = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI") inbox = outlook.GetDefaultFolder(6) # 6 refers to the Inbox # Calculate the date for one week ago last_week = datetime.now() - timedelta(days=7) filter_string = "[ReceivedTime] >= '" + last_week.strftime('%m/%d/%Y') + "'" # Apply filter to get emails from the last week filtered_emails = inbox.Items.Restrict(filter_string) # Extract and store email details, converting ReceivedTime to naive datetime if necessary email_details = [] for email in filtered_emails: sender = email.SenderName received_time = email.ReceivedTime body = email.Body # Convert to naive datetime by removing timezone info if received_time.tzinfo is not None: received_time = received_time.replace(tzinfo=None) email_details.append((sender, received_time, body)) # Create a DataFrame df = pd.DataFrame(email_details, columns=['Sender', 'ReceivedTime', 'Body']) # Export to Excel df.to_excel("emails_from_last_week.xlsx", index=False) print("Exported emails from the last week to Excel.")

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@@Noboundexpo could you try while outlook app is open?

@@ahmedskullab i did exception occurred 4096, Microsoft’s outlook the property RecievedTime unknown

Merhaba, AutoCAD ile Python’u entegre etme konusunda hangi adımda takıldığınızı öğrenebilir miyim? Böylece daha iyi yardımcı olabilirim.

@@ahmedskullab anconda programını kurdum. Python son versiyonu kurdum. Jüpiter notebook dan kodlama yapıyorum ama autocad de çalışmıyor.

For this task, it’s worth to learn the AutoCAD .NET API. It’s a bit more complicated than use of pyautocad but it will make the changes later much easier

here you go: # I want to export the line data including # - coordinates x and y for the start and end of each line. # - layer name # - the length # Export the data to an Excel file. import ezdxf from openpyxl import Workbook import math # Loading the dxf file and return modelspace def load_dxf_file(filepath): doc = ezdxf.readfile(filepath) return doc.modelspace() # Calculate line length function def calculate_length(start, end): # distance formula: length = sqrt((x diff)^2 + (y diff)^2) length = math.sqrt((end.x - start.x)**2 + (end.y - start.y)**2) return length # Define the extract line data function def extract_line_data(msp): line_data = [] for line in msp.query('LINE'): start = line.dxf.start end = line.dxf.end layer = line.dxf.layer length = calculate_length(start, end) line_data.append([ start.x, start.y, end.x, end.y, layer, length ]) return line_data # We have the data stored in line_data how to store in Excel! def create_excel_file(data, output_path): wb = Workbook() ws = wb.active ws.title = "Line Data" ws.append(["Start X", "Start Y", "End x", "End Y", "Layer", "Length"]) for row in data: ws.append(row) wb.save(output_path) # Now we have the following: # A function to load the dxf file # A function to calculate line length # A function to extract line data # A function to store data in Excel dxf_path = r"C:\Users\kulla\OneDrive - University of Bath\Documents\Python\Task12\Drawing1.dxf" excel_path = r"C:\Users\kulla\OneDrive - University of Bath\Documents\Python\Task12\LinesData.xlsx" msp = load_dxf_file(dxf_path) lines_data = extract_line_data(msp) create_excel_file(lines_data, excel_path) print(f"Data exported to {excel_path} successfully.")

Yessss you can do that, what you need to do a for loop and iterate over each dimension and assign it the new style

You can easily do that using the ezdxf library. Pyautocad is much harder when you deal with complex objects like Hatches. eventually you could combine both libraries in your code

Thank you for your comment!

@@ahmedskullab Man, your videos are very significant to me. Thanks to your lectures I can make AutoCAD drawings from my Mac 💻 with no need to having AutoCAD installed. I need only a visor.

I think it depends on the way you want to use it. If it’s just automating small elements or operations, auto-lisp could be more favoured. Python for the bigger stuff is more feasible

@@ahmedskullab To create a line, have you test the lisp function (entmake....) vs the Py function? (like making 1000 of them) why this question? Py kind of look like vba. I found vba much slower than the lisp. Still I appreciate your presentation of Py as a new tool to help programming in Autocad.

Absolutely! thank you for your comment!

did you try msp.add_multileader_mtext("Standard")?

Use these lines to check the version import ezdxf print(ezdxf.__version__)

Yes absolutely 💯

One way to do it is to custom a function to add labels then use it in the loop.

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True, I had challenges too, I use ChatGPT quite often nowadays. Also searching online. There are some information in pypi and GitHub …

@@ahmedskullab I See... Do you perhaps have a personal selection of commands which you could share?

Yes and yes

# Import modules import ezdxf from ezdxf.math import Vec2 from ezdxf.render import mleader from ezdxf.render import ARROWS # Initiate DXF file and access model space doc = ezdxf.new(setup= True) msp = doc.modelspace() # Create a Line msp.add_line((60, 15), (115, 15)) # Build the multileader ml_builder = msp.add_multileader_mtext("Standard") ml_builder.set_content( "1. Line Line2", style="OpenSans", alignment=mleader.TextAlignment.left,) ml_builder.set_connection_types( left=mleader.HorizontalConnection.middle_of_top_line, right=mleader.HorizontalConnection.middle_of_bottom_line ) ml_builder.set_leader_properties( color = 1, #This is the red color index linetype="DASHEDX2", lineweight=70, ) ml_builder.set_arrow_properties(name=ARROWS.closed_blank, size=4.0) ml_builder.add_leader_line(mleader.ConnectionSide.left, [Vec2(60, 15)]) ml_builder.add_leader_line(mleader.ConnectionSide.right, [Vec2(115, 15)]) ml_builder.build(insert=Vec2(85, 40)) # Save the document as a DXF file doc.saveas("Multileader10.dxf")

@@ahmedskullab Thank you for the code Ahmed, but for me this only creates a DXF file with a line and multileader on it. How can i use this so it puts a multileader on my own polylines in my own drawings?

I intend to put a detailed video of these tips, to show how you can create and reuse. you can create a function and call it multileader which can be reusable and easier to apply...

Sure will do! Did you know you can do this ruclips.net/video/wPQoUkE1BEk/видео.htmlsi=AOmdVXTDabPdK8qT

@@ahmedskullab Good to know!

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Any version, it is saved as a dxf file, in fact, you could specify the version within the code…