Find and locate external references in drawings

[sunchuanpu]

Hello,

I am using an external reference as frame for printing. Is there any ways to find and locate the external references using vba so I can quickly print multiple drawings?

I know the name of external reference. I will know relative locations of its four corners once if I can locate anything like insertion point. There might be multiple pages to print (an external reference used multiple times) in each drawing file. 

Thank you very much.

[norman.yuan · Accepted solution]

You can use code to open each drawing and loop through modelspace/each layout to check if there is an AcadExternalReference object, something like:

Dim ent As AcadEntity

Dim xref As AcadExternalReference

For Each ent In ModelSpace[PaperSpace]

  If TypeOf ent Is AcadExternalReference Then

    Set xref = ent

    '' Then examine its name/position... to decide if this is the target Xref and do things accordingly

    ... ...

  End If

Next

[sunchuanpu]

Many thanks!