Topic: Need Block help

[mgtricon]

I been using VBA for Microsoft Office but new to AutoCAD VBA, and its a little different than Lisp that I am used to.  So what I would like to do is check a drawing to see if a block exists in the drawing or not.  I have about 2,000+ drawings to go through and check which ones contain the specific block.  I know I can do something similar in checking excel documents closed for certain words but can it be done for Cad.  It will take a long time to check all these drawings if they have to be opened then verified.

[hendie]

if you had carried out a little search you would have found this

http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=21818.0

[Guest]

WHOA!!  Deja Vu!!   

[mgtricon]

I did look at it, and did not know if I needed to start a new topic or not, but it looks like his document is already open.  What I would like to do is check for the block without opening the drawing. 

Mycollection = ThisDrawing.SelectionSets

Using this line is for the open and current drawing, correct.  I am not sure how to query an unopened drawing that is my delima.

[Keith™]

Look at ObjectDBX, it will allow you to work on drawings without opening them in AutoCAD. There are a few examples here on the swamp plus many more on the web. A simple google search should turn up enough examples to get you going.