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Autodesk Add-In Question

Anonymous — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:35:23 GMT

I'm taking over the development of some Autodesk addins that are used to parse a drawing to bring back text from the drawing, namely title block and bill of materials information. I have another process that runs and reads the meta data for the drawing itself that gets run from Vault before checking in the drawing. I need to know if I can combine these two processes such that I can parse the drawing outside of AutoCad. Is this possible?

Re: Autodesk Add-In Question

arcticad — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:37:28 GMT

You can either use COM/ActiveX to edit the drawing, A copy of AutoCAD is required will load up, or you can use RealDWG to modify the drawings directly.

Re: Autodesk Add-In Question

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:26:26 GMT

I don't need to modify the drawing, just read text from it. I guess the better question to ask would be, can I run an add-in written for AutoCad from Vault?

Re: Autodesk Add-In Question

arcticad — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:45:31 GMT

it won't matter if you are just reading the files. it won't change which API you use.

I haven't used Vault, however as long as you have access to the files you should be able to read them.