Monday 5 November 2018

Mapping Project Xref’s and Dref’s

Ok i have progressed my workflow for mapping the xref relationships within a project folder a bit further and have been able to add the layout name and thumbnail image to the chart as discussed a bit in this forum post.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/lisp-to-list-layer-xrefs-inserted-on/td-p/8163801/page/2

To get the layer names I have been able to modify the list code. For the thumbnail images I have still not been able to automate the process but that is not a kill as just makes the chart look nice.

I did however find a tool by CadManagerTools  called BatchinEditor that has tools built in for exporting preview images to files of different image formats. If you look at around the 7:30min mark in this youtube view you will see the process in action. As the tools is reasonably price and has I lot od additional functions I will most likely purchase a licence to give it a try.

The next step will be to map the dref relationships it looks like it is achievable from this post but may need to be done with .net and not lisp to get the text file.

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?157034-NET-API-functions-to-interrogated-Civil-3D-drawings-for-possible-data-shortcut-dependencies

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