Hi all, I use Autocad to design assembly systems for my customers and am looking into a software to help manage my operations.
I'm exploring ideas on how to extract data from Autocad drawings which include the drawn model, the tag identifiers, the assigned objects etc and load it into another optimization software tool. Basically, I want to know the drawn model, its various sub-assemblies and their names and have this information made available to another software maybe via text file or some form of middleware.
I'm also looking into viewing this drawn model and by clicking on a certain assembly within it, drill-down to a listing of the components and other data properties related to this assembly. It would be good if the progress of work in my operations related to this assembly is highlighted using status colors as well.
Has anyone had any experience in doing this or know of any 3rd party software that can do this? Help is much appreciated. Thanks.