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Keith™

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« on: November 24, 2003, 06:51:54 AM »
Ok all you pond scum....thats a little higher than the bottom dwellers for all of you lacking sufficient knowledge of a watery ecosystem, we will discuss what an ecosystem is later, it doesn't really matter right now.

What does matter is that I need to put together a program that will open 4000 drawings in succession, spread out in various folders, then remove and replace or redefine a nested block, then remove or rename an existing layer, finally purge any extraneous information and save the drawing. I already have a good start with a program that will open and close all drawings in a specified folder, but what I was wondering is:

Should I attempt to redefine the block within the program or in the interest of widespread usability, should I make a form that asks what block to replace and let the user select an existing block from the hard drive. Either way, I need for this to be hands free after running the program. Since VBA can run across multiple drawings it would be my language of choice.
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« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2003, 08:51:11 AM »
That fastest and easiers way would be to hard code the block names into your program.
If you have the source, you can always change them later if they change.

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« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2003, 09:06:57 AM »
Keith, did you ever get into ObjectDBX? I understand that it can be written from vba and it sounds like as long as you don't need a selection set, you can do this. I think I have a file that was given me that is ODX. I'll post it so you can look at it.

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« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2003, 09:07:07 AM »
That was my thinking, but I was also considering whether this would be a program that would be used once or many times.

So all of you coders out there, lets see what we can come up with.

This is the base that I have:
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Sub GeneratePreview()
 Dim CurrentDwg As AcadDocument
 Dim File As Variant
 Dim Folder As String
 ThisDrawing.SetVariable "Acadlspasdoc", 0
 'the ReturnFolder command is externally defined and pops up a window alowing the user to browse for a folder
 Folder = ReturnFolder.ReturnFolder("File location to generate previews: ")
 File = Dir(Folder & "\*.DWG")
 While File <> ""
 Set CurrentDwg = Application.Documents.Open(Folder & "\" & File)
 CurrentDwg.Activate
 Application.ZoomExtents
 CurrentDwg.Close True
 Set CurrentDwg = Nothing
 File = Dir
 Wend
 ThisDrawing.SetVariable "Acadlspasdoc", 1
End Sub


I am now thinking of a way to open subfolders and their drawings, although I am not really worried about that at the time.

As I progress I will post more info.
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« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2003, 09:23:40 AM »
Have a look here. This was written for ODX to update a block in multiple drawings. I never used it, but it might give you an idea of how to write your code. You would need to set a reference to ObjectDBX Type 1.0. I can't find one in 2004, but I know it's there in 2002. The thing I like about ODX is that you can't open the drawings to update them. I've read that it is faster. It makes sense to me.

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« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2003, 09:27:15 AM »
Thx I will take a look.
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