Get View Info for CAD Drawing

GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud provides additional information about CAD drawings such as list of layouts and layers when calling Info method. To retrieve view information for CAD drawing call Info method and cast output result to CadViewInfo type.

Following example demonstrates how to retrieve view information for CAD drawing.

API Usage

There are steps that usage of GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud consists of:

  1. Upload input document into cloud storage
  2. Render document or get document info
  3. Download rendered document from storage

Steps 1 and 3 are storage operations, please refer to this File API documentation for usage details.

Swagger UI lets you call this REST API directly from the browser.

cURL example


# First get JSON Web Token
# Please get your Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud/applications. Kindly place Client Id in "client_id" and Client Secret in "client_secret" argument.
curl -v "https://api.groupdocs.cloud/connect/token" \
-X POST \
-d "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=xxxx&client_secret=xxxx" \
-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
-H "Accept: application/json"

# cURL example to get document information
curl -v "https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v2.0/viewer/info" \
-X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <jwt token>"
-d "{
  'FileInfo': {
    'FilePath': 'SampleFiles/with_layers_and_layouts.dwg'
  }
}"
{
  "formatExtension": ".dwg",
  "format": "AutoCAD Drawing Database File",
  "pages": [
    {
      "number": 1,
      "width": 0,
      "height": 0,
      "visible": true,
      "lines": []
    }
  ],
  "attachments": [],
  "archiveViewInfo": null,
  "cadViewInfo": {
    "layers": [
      {
        "name": "QUADRANT",
        "visible": true
      },
      {
        "name": "TRIANGLE",
        "visible": true
      },
      {
        "name": "CIRCLE",
        "visible": true
      },
      {
        "name": "0",
        "visible": true
      }
    ],
    "layouts": [
      {
        "name": "Model",
        "width": 26,
        "height": 23
      }
    ]
  },
  "projectManagementViewInfo": null,
  "outlookViewInfo": null,
  "pdfViewInfo": null
}

SDK examples

The API is completely independent of your operating system, database system or development language. We provide and support API SDKs in many development languages in order to make it even easier to integrate. You can see our available SDKs list here.

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-dotnet-samples
string MyClientSecret = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
string MyClientId = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

var configuration = new Configuration(MyClientId, MyClientSecret);
var apiInstance = new InfoApi(configuration);

var viewOptions = new ViewOptions
{
    FileInfo = new FileInfo
    {
        FilePath = "SampleFiles/with_layers_and_layouts.dwg"
    }
};

var response = apiInstance.GetInfo(new GetInfoRequest(viewOptions));
Console.WriteLine(" Layers count: " + response.CadViewInfo.Layers.Count);
Console.WriteLine(" Layouts count: " + response.CadViewInfo.Layouts.Count);
// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-php-samples
use GroupDocs\Viewer\Model;
use GroupDocs\Viewer\Model\Requests;

$ClientId = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
$ClientSecret = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

$configuration = new GroupDocs\Viewer\Configuration();
$configuration->setAppSid($ClientId);
$configuration->setAppKey($ClientSecret);

$apiInstance# new GroupDocs\Viewer\InfoApi($configuration);

$viewOptions = new Model\ViewOptions();
$fileInfo = new Model\FileInfo();
$fileInfo->setFilePath("SampleFiles/with_layers_and_layouts.dwg");
$viewOptions->setFileInfo($fileInfo);

$request = new Requests\GetInfoRequest($viewOptions);
$response = $apiInstance->getInfo($request);

echo " Layers count: ", count($response->getCadViewInfo()->getLayers()), "\n";
echo " Layouts count: ", count($response->getCadViewInfo()->getLayouts()), "\n";
// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-java-samples
string MyClientSecret = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
string MyClientId = ""; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

Configuration configuration = new Configuration(MyClientId, MyClientSecret);
InfoApi apiInstance = new InfoApi(configuration);

FileInfo fileInfo = new FileInfo();
fileInfo.setFilePath("SampleFiles/with_layers_and_layouts.dwg");
ViewOptions viewOptions = new ViewOptions();
viewOptions.setFileInfo(fileInfo);

InfoResult response = apiInstance.getInfo(new GetInfoRequest(viewOptions));

CadViewInfo cadViewInfo = response.getCadViewInfo();

System.out.println(" Layers count: " + cadViewInfo.getLayers().size());
System.out.println(" Layouts count: " + cadViewInfo.getLayouts().size());
# For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-ruby-samples
require 'groupdocs_viewer_cloud'

$client_id = "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX" # Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
$client_secret = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" # Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

apiInstance = GroupDocsViewerCloud::InfoApi.from_keys($client_id, $client_secret)

viewOptions = GroupDocsViewerCloud::ViewOptions.new
viewOptions.file_info = GroupDocsViewerCloud::FileInfo.new
viewOptions.file_info.file_path = "SampleFiles/with_layers_and_layouts.dwg"
viewOptions.view_format = "HTML"

request = GroupDocsViewerCloud::GetInfoRequest.new(viewOptions)
response = infoApi.get_info(request)
puts(" Layers count: " + response.cad_view_info.layers.length.to_s)
puts(" Layouts count: " + response.cad_view_info.layouts.length.to_s)
// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-node-samples
global.viewer# require("groupdocs-viewer-cloud");

global.clientId = "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
global.clientSecret = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"; // Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

global.infoApi = viewer_cloud.InfoApi.fromKeys(clientId, clientSecret);

let fileInfo = new viewer_cloud.FileInfo();
fileInfo.filePath = "SampleFiles/with_layers_and_layouts.dwg";
let viewOptions = new viewer_cloud.ViewOptions();
viewOptions.fileInfo = fileInfo;

let request = new viewer_cloud.GetInfoRequest(viewOptions);
let response = await infoApi.getInfo(request);
console.log(" Layers count: " + response.cadViewInfo.layers.length);
console.log(" Layouts count: " + response.cadViewInfo.layouts.length);
# For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-python-samples
import groupdocs_viewer_cloud

client_id = "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX" # Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
client_secret = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" # Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud

apiInstance = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.ViewApi.from_keys(client_id, client_secret)

view_options = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.ViewOptions()
view_options.file_info = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.FileInfo()
view_options.file_info.file_path = "SampleFiles/with_layers_and_layouts.dwg"
view_options.view_format = "HTML"
view_options.render_options = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.HtmlOptions()
view_options.render_options.cad_options = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.CadOptions()
view_options.render_options.cad_options.scale_factor = 0.3

request = groupdocs_viewer_cloud.CreateViewRequest(view_options)
response = apiInstance.create_view(request)