Looking for drawing List Generator

[Anonymous]

[acad 2002 , win98]

My office has, for many years, been creating their drawings using ordinary
text for their title blocks numbers and titles. Drawings numbers consist of
project number plus a sequential number. Now my boss has asked me to find a
way to automatically generate a master "drawing list" (list of all drawing
numbers and their titles) for new or updated drawings (not the "old"
drawings).

I assume I will need to develop a new title block with attributes for dwg
numbers and titles (lines 1, 2 etc) - for now. But I'm not sure where to go
from there?

How can I export the attribute data (in batch mode) to a master list (excel,
access, ..?) that can include the drawing numbers and titles from all our
drawings (at least those having the new attribute title block) which reside
in individual project-number folders and subfolders?

? I know there are big time doc-management programs out their; however, I'm
just looking for a low tech/low cost function.


Thanks - Ken Dispoto

[Anonymous]

I think there's something called attextract, a stand alone app that will pull out that info into a CSV file, from there you can import into excel/access. Look for it at www.cadalog.com.

[Anonymous]

kdispoto wrote:

> ... my boss has asked me to find a way to automatically generate a master
> "drawing list" (list of all drawing numbers and their titles) for new or
> updated drawings (not the "old" drawings).

You might want to consider storing your title block information in Drawing
Properties (see the DWGPROPS command). We supply an ActiveX module
(acaddpx.dll) that can be used by Excel, Access or other tools to extract the
Drawing Properties information without using AutoCAD.

There are a couple of tools that allow you to reference Drawing Properties data
in drawings, such as in your title blocks. For example, the RText Express Tool
would let you include something like:

Title: $(getprop,Title)

which would display the Title field, automatically updating when the Drawing
Properties were changed. Your title block could then be Xref'ed into Layouts;
the same Drawing Properties data could be used in multiple Layouts.
--
Frank Whaley
Autodesk, Inc.

[on123456789]

I'm using autocad2014 for mac. and I'm also trying to generate a drawing list from the project manager.

I'd tried DWGPROPS command but seems like it doesn't exist in my version.

is there any other way to generate the drawing list automatically from project manger ? like from all the layout's name ? 
(I use a title block with field(layout name) for each layout. Would like to know if there's anyway to automatically collect these information from the project manager and insert as a drawing list) 

also is there anyway to run the layout number automatically? ex. if you add layout / the number of the layout will also updated / and the layout number field in title block will also updated 

thank you so much 

best regards