Ok, so with reference manager, it is easy to handle when we need to move xrefs or rename folders....but I have a different issue......
First, here is our normal workflow:
- Get backgrounds from Architect
- Clean them up (Overkill, color 8, shaded, make everything bylayer, etc.
- Setup sheets with these files xrefed in
We usually try to keep the architect's filenames the same, to make it easier if we need to send CAD files back to them and it's usually how they want it.
Here's the problem though, some architects like to rename the files every time that they send them to us, unfortunately we never know which architects are going to do this and which ones aren't when we setup the projects initially. When we only have one or two files from the architect, this is no real problem; however, there are times where there are 100+ files that the architect has renamed. I can usually get them to fill out a list of old to new filenames fairly quickly when this happens, so I am wondering if anyone has or knows of a routine that can read a file with this list (most likely a .csv, excel or text file) and modify the xrefs inside of drawings or rename the files back to the original names, etc.?
I am going to work on one, but I didn't want to reinvent the wheel if it already exists. I have searched for one, but haven't come across anything that is quite what is needed.