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Working with database properties

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Working with database properties

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- [Instructor] Our last chapter we focused on the application services name space. We learned a lot about the application object and even more about the document object and the document collection object within the application services name space of our AutoCAD API. In this chapter, we're going to focus on the database services name space. Now, whereas the document object contains the database for the drawing, the document object is more a big picture overview object. It's really the drawing as a whole. Whereas the database you could kind of consider as the guts of the drawing. It's where all of the variables and other really non-graphic controls are stored. So you'll find the drawing variables in the database, the text styles, the dimension styles. All of those controls or settings within the database object. So, we're going to see how to work with those as well as how do we get the standard database object? And we're going to find that when we're talking about a standard database…

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