Does anyone know a tool to detect "Hybrid drawings"?

[Anonymous]

I have some customers with thousands of DWGs, of which at least a couple of thousand are hybrid drawings, i.e. where you have a DWG with an XREF to a TIFF. I need to identify these in a better/faster way than manually opening and checking. We have written a small Java program that just looks for certain patterns in the DWG files, but this is tricky and only works for a handful of DWG versions. Does anyone know of a tool or script that can scan through a directory structure and identify hybrid files?

[vladimir_michl]

DBXscanImg - see https://www.cadstudio.cz/en/apps/dbx/

Vladimir Michl, www.cadforum.cz

[Sea-Haven]

cadstudio nice options

Using dbx or aeccorconsole and look inside for xrefs the Tiff shoud be listed there, as images normally get stored as a xref.

Check out Lee-mac.com for dbx program source.

[Anonymous]

Hi!

@vladimir_michl 

Thanks for you answer, the DBXscanImg and DBXscanXref tools look good, but it seems like I am getting a lot of false positives in the DBXscanXref. Opening several files in AutoCAD or DWG TrueView shows no External References, although the files are reported by the DBXscanXref tool.

Any suggestions?

[vladimir_michl]

I think the DBXscanXref reports also those attached xrefs which are currently "unloaded".

Vladimir Michl, www.cadstudio.cz - www.cadforum.cz

[Anonymous]

Looks like the idea of DBXscanXref is good, but it does not work the way I need. With so many false positives, I have to manually go through thousands of files...

Any other suggestions out there?

[john.uhden]

Yes.

You send all your DWGs to @dougbroad and he will sort them into a separate folder for you.

He's just that kinda guy.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I cannot do that 🙂

Drawings are for a power distributor, and quite a bit of them are classified 🙂

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I ended up writing my own little piece of VBA, finding blocks of IAcadModelSpace having items of IAcadRasterImage. Did the trick for me.