topic Re: AutoCAD Data Extract in AutoCAD Forum

AutoCAD Data Extract

barry_fletcher — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 11:26:04 GMT

Apologies - I have seen some replies on this on here but I'm still having issues.

In my test, I have 3 .dwg files in a folder called c:\extract

All I need to do is to open each file, do an data extract of basic block attributes to a .csv file but it keeps falling down for me.

I would appreciate any help and apologies for the basic question.

Re: AutoCAD Data Extract

Valentin_CAD — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:20:07 GMT

@barry_fletcher ,

You may need to provide more information on your meaning of "it keeps falling down".

Let us know if you are working with AutoCAD LT or Dynamic blocks.

About Extracting Data from Block Attributes

Re: AutoCAD Data Extract

barry_fletcher — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:28:10 GMT

Apologies - I was rushing when typing. Each example I follow from online searchs stop working at some stage. Would you have a sample .bat and .scr that I can edit the paths on to get this to work. All I am doing is automating a data extract that I am currently performing manually by doing a dx command.

Re: AutoCAD Data Extract

Michiel.Valcke — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:54:41 GMT

I did some similar things (without data extract) where I needed some help from others, this is the post:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/running-a-script-through-a-batch-file/m-p/11672850#M441840

I originally based it off an AU class by Michael Best (link in the original post)

basically you do something like this:

set accoreexe="C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2024\accoreconsole.exe" set source="C:\YourDirectoryWithDWG's" set script="C:\YourScript.scr" FOR /f "delims=" %%f IN ('dir /b "%source%\*.dwg"') DO %accoreexe% /i %source%\%%f /s %script%

I'm not sure the core console is capable of executing a data extraction, it is not 100% the same as the interfaced version of autocad and it's very difficult to find documentation about.

If per chance the name of the dwg's is always the same you can just skip this all and just save all 3 .dwg's in the same dxe file. It is perfectly possible to run data extraction on multiple drawings at once.

Re: AutoCAD Data Extract

CGBenner — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 15:03:27 GMT

@barry_fletcher Did the information provided answer your question? If so, please use Accept Solution so that others may find this in the future. Thank you very much!