Accessing the active space or layout in an AutoCAD drawing using .NET

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本文探讨了在AutoCAD中实现空间独立操作的方法，即不论当前处于模型空间还是图纸空间，代码都能正常运行并创建实体。文章提供了几种实现方案，并推荐使用`CurrentSpaceId`来获取并操作当前活动空间。

This question was asked as comment to a previous post by har!s:

Thanks a lot for the code. I have yet to see 2008 and MultiLeader. But I presume that it works on both Model and paper spaces. In that case, what is the best method to make the operation space independent? i.e., it should work on active space irrespective of whether it's model or paper. I think this will be generally applicable to almost all the entity creations.

The question is very valid and does indeed apply to a lot of entity creation - and other - activities. Most of the time I simply show how to open the modelspace in my code, for example:

  Document doc =
    Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
  Editor ed = doc.Editor;
  Database db = doc.Database;
 
  Transaction tr =
    db.TransactionManager.StartTransaction();
  using (tr)
  {
    BlockTable bt =
      (BlockTable)tr.GetObject(
        db.BlockTableId,
        OpenMode.ForRead
      );
    BlockTableRecord btr =
      (BlockTableRecord)tr.GetObject(
        bt[BlockTableRecord.ModelSpace],
        OpenMode.ForWrite
      );
    // ...
  }

The key statement here is at the end, where we use GetObject() to open the BlockTableRecord to which we want to (for example) append an entity. The form we use is:

  bt[BlockTableRecord.ModelSpace]

Breaking this down: we're actually looking up the ObjectId of the BlockTableRecord with the name of "*MODEL_SPACE", which is the string stored in the static ModelSpace property of the BlockTableRecord class.

Here are a few different options for what we might do here:

Use either BlockTableRecord.ModelSpace or BlockTableRecord.PaperSpace, if we know that we want to access either of these containers (the current approach).
Use foreach() on the BlockTable to iterate through the various BlockTableRecords: you can open each one using GetObject() and check the IsLayout property to find those that are either modelspace or paperspace layouts.
Use db.CurrentSpaceId to open the currently active space in that particular database.

Option 3 is really the answer to this question, which makes the code like this:

  Document doc =
    Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument;
  Editor ed = doc.Editor;
  Database db = doc.Database;
 
  Transaction tr =
    db.TransactionManager.StartTransaction();
  using (tr)
  {
    BlockTable bt =
      (BlockTable)tr.GetObject(
        db.BlockTableId,
        OpenMode.ForRead
      );
    BlockTableRecord btr =
      (BlockTableRecord)tr.GetObject(
        db.CurrentSpaceId,
        OpenMode.ForWrite
      );
    // ...
  }