Thanks for chiming in there, Tony...
it is fairly easy these days to extract attribute info to access or excell,
having the live link between the database and the dwg is the trickier part,
but, should be able to be accomplished with some limitations with regular
autocad (would use dbconnect, and would use a text label inserted from the
db rather than an attribute) of course, I haven't really tried that since
2002 or so... waiting for a specific task I'd use it for to take the time to
experiment again...
would this be something where you'd start out with attributes or would you
start out with the specs in your db?
there should be different ways to make your equipment list, depending on how
they are represented... like, say you have a specific block representing a
certain piece of equip, I think you can just have a table, and make one of
the fields query for the number of instances where that block shows up in a
drawing. again, not something I've done, but, I know I've seen it discussed
extensively in other newsgroups...
wrote in message news:4886226@discussion.autodesk.com...
I'm not sure where we fit in. I work with PIDs and Loop drawings in a Paper
Mill. We use block attributes in all of our drawings to store data about
equipment and field instruments. We had a software package called CadLynx
that would read an AutoCAD drawing, extract the block attribute values and
write them to an Access database. It could also read the Access database
and then write to a set of AutoCAD drawings. We used CadLynx to create an
Instrument/Equipment database for everything in the mill. Does any other
software exist that will do what CadLynx once did?
Thanks for your help.
Tony