Topic: Loading Drawing into Database .Net

[nobody]

When I load a drawing into a database using ReadDwgFile, what effect does that have on the original drawing?  I am ultimately going to do a db.SaveAs()

[nobody]

Could really use input / opinions on this today.  Anyone know anything concerning the process?  Need to verify the original drawings always stay in tact once a database saveas is complete and the transaction is committed.

[kdub_nz]

What does your testing indicate ??

[Keith Brown]

When I load a drawing into a database using ReadDwgFile, what effect does that have on the original drawing?  I am ultimately going to do a db.SaveAs()

What have you come across to think that it might affect the original database?   You are creating a new and separate object from the original and it does not interact with the original unless you make it.  Even if you opened up the original drawing in a side database you would get access errors screaming at you.


It is a extremely simple matter to create a side database with a new drawing and save it and then just compare the original drawing with a before and after snapshot to prove it to yourself.

[nobody]

Thanks!  Didn't come across anything except my lack of understanding of what's actually happening when I use ReadDwgFile. This reply makes it a bit clearer.

When I load a drawing into a database using ReadDwgFile, what effect does that have on the original drawing?  I am ultimately going to do a db.SaveAs()

What have you come across to think that it might affect the original database?   You are creating a new and separate object from the original and it does not interact with the original unless you make it.  Even if you opened up the original drawing in a side database you would get access errors screaming at you.


It is a extremely simple matter to create a side database with a new drawing and save it and then just compare the original drawing with a before and after snapshot to prove it to yourself.