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SheetFormat Object


Description

The SheetFormat object represents a sheet format in a drawing.

Methods

Name Description
CopyTo Method that copies the sheet format to the target drawing document.
Delete Method that deletes the sheet format.
GetReferenceKey Method that generates and returns the reference key for this entity.

Properties

Name Description
Application Returns the top-level parent application object. When used the context of Inventor, an Application object is returned. When used in the context of Apprentice, an ApprenticeServer object is returned.
AttributeSets Property that returns the AttributeSets collection object associated with this object.
FitViewsToSheet Returns whether to fit the drawing views to the sheet or no.
HasDrawingViews Property that returns whether this sheet format contains definitions for one or more drawing views.
Height Property that gets the height of the sheet as defined in the format.
Name Gets and sets the name of the SheetFormat.
Orientation Property that gets whether the sheet is oriented using landscape or portrait orientation.
Parent Property that returns the parent DrawingDocument object.
ReferencedAutoCADBlockDefinitions Property that returns an enumerator of all the AutoCADBlockDefinition objects that this format references. The property returns Nothing if the sheet format does not reference any AutoCAD block definitions.
ReferencedBorderDefinition Property that returns the BorderDefinition that this format references.
ReferencedSymbolDefinitions Property that returns an enumerator of all the SketchedSymbolDefinition objects that this format references.
ReferencedTitleBlockDefinition Property that returns the TitleBlockDefinition that this format references.
Size Property that gets the size of the sheet as defined in the format.
TitleBlockLocation Property that returns the position of the title block on the sheet as defined in the format.
Type Returns an ObjectTypeEnum indicating this object's type.
Width Property that gets the width of the sheet as defined in the format.

Accessed From

SheetFormat.CopyTo, SheetFormats.Add, SheetFormats.AddWithOptions, SheetFormats.Item

Samples

Name Description
Create sheet with multiple views This sample demonstrates the creation of a drawing sheet based on a particular sheet format containing the definition for multiple views.

Version

Introduced in version 2009

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