With the toolkit you can do just about anything you
want since you are writing your own code and can draw whatever graphics you want
into the DWF. It isn't the kind of thing that lots of people do since DWF
is intended as a "published" format and not a native "model" format.
As such DWF doesn't lend itself well to "editing" like you are doing (though not
impossible). Autodesk's MapGuide product is actually designed to do the
kinds of things you are doing.
It all depends on what level of sophistication you
need. Technically you can make DWF do this using the toolkit. The
hard part is that the DWF wont contain block information anymore (see an earlier
post from me this week discussing security of DWF and measurements). That
means you'll need some other element to "tag" various locations so that you can
modify the icons. You could use hyperlinks (especially invisible hyperlink
regions) or named views for these tagged regions and your toolkit code
could search on these tagged regions.
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Hi
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I'm trying to determine if the following task is possible with the dwf
toolkit: I am working on a web based product that shows the location of assets
within a building. We are using Autocad to generate dwf files of the building
floor plan so that users can see the location of various assets from their
intranet. The problem I have is that as assets change location I need to
dynamically update the dwf file to show new locations. (I am using a jpeg
image to represent various assets on the drawing.) So I need to be able to
insert a jpeg into a dwf based on the location of a "block" that is already in
the drawing. I downloaded the dwf toolkit and have begun looking at the
documentation. However since I'm new to this software I thought I'd find out
if this is even possible with the tookit. I'd appreciate any insights.
Thanks.
