The company I'm at has a document control piece of software - it's really being used largely to batch plot.
Anyway, they've built it from VBA, then gotten it "converted" to VB.net. Its a bit of a mess. It loads in a dwg, then sweeps the whole directory (including the loaded dwg) for meta data. Lots of issues - it seems to me running this OUTSIDE of Autocad makes way more sense. I don't need preview information and Autocad will be on every machine, but do I need to use RealDWG to attack it that way?
Hopefully this post can assist:
http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2007/07/accessing-dwg-f.html
Please double check, but I believe that if you have a license of AutoCAD on that machine you do not need to utilize RealDWG.
Great, always good to have options at the start of research!!
I also found this:
which I'm looking into 🙂
Using an existing batch processing application may save you a lot of time. Here's one of several blog post related to Script Pro 2 to get you started -
http://adndevblog.typepad.com/autocad/2012/04/batch-purging-of-drawing-files-using-scriptpro-20.html
@StephenPreston wrote:Using an existing batch processing application may save you a lot of time. Here's one of several blog post related to Script Pro 2 to get you started -
http://adndevblog.typepad.com/autocad/2012/04/batch-purging-of-drawing-files-using-scriptpro-20.html
I'm looking into that, but I really need to establish 2 way communication from vb.net with the object...this is more a "full blown ui-driven document manager that happens to batch print to pdf". situation...
They had something that operated from inside vba doing it, ported it to vb.net with a guy that has never used autocad, and wonder why it doesn't work. I think it's just easier to rebuild...if I could build a ui interface too the the acadcore thing it would be perfect - any attempt to use the acad.exe object is rather exenisve but I may have no choice....
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