Autodesk Add-In Question

[Anonymous]

I'm taking over the development of some Autodesk addins that are used to parse a drawing to bring back text from the drawing, namely title block and bill of materials information.  I have another process that runs and reads the meta data for the drawing itself that gets run from Vault before checking in the drawing.  I need to know if I can combine these two processes such that I can parse the drawing outside of AutoCad.  Is this possible?

[arcticad]

You can either use COM/ActiveX to edit the drawing, A copy of AutoCAD is required will load up, or you can use RealDWG to modify the drawings directly.

[Anonymous]

I don't need to modify the drawing, just read text from it.  I guess the better question to ask would be, can I run an add-in written for AutoCad from Vault?

[arcticad]

it won't matter if you are just reading the files. it won't change which API you use.

I haven't used Vault, however as long as you have access to the files you should be able to read them.