Programmatically make the difference between Inventor & AutoCad .dwg

FINET_Laurent · ‎10-26-2023

Hi folks,

I have a list of .dwg files. I would like to remove the AutoCad .dwgs & keep the Inventor .dwg.

How can I make the difference between the two programmatically ?

Kind regards,

FINET L.

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WCrihfield · ‎10-26-2023

Interesting issue. Have you already checked tried opening each of them in Inventor, then using the DrawingDocument.IsInventorDWG property? I have never tested it myself before, because we use IDW for all our drawings, so the only DWG's we have are from AutoCAD.

Wesley Crihfield

(Not an Autodesk Employee)

WCrihfield · ‎10-26-2023

Another one to test might be the ThisApplication.FileManager.IsInventorDWG() method, which will actually take a String type input, instead of having to open, then use a DrawingDocument object.