sim_rx3 Posted February 1, 2009 Posted February 1, 2009 hi all, well where to start. ive been given a request from the power that be to install some code into our title blocks.. ive done some searching and reading and cant seem to get exactly what i need.. sorry if its a simple thing but i couldnt find it unfortunatly. in my last job we had a file that was part of the drawing that would list the architectuals that were attached, but showed the current date when it was being printed. basically my current employers want a listing of attached architectuals, its revision number and its last date modified. to be embeded into the drawings. easy huh lol i know this system works on FTP sites as it is generated by coding and the regimentation of uploading drawings with revision numbers as part of the file names etc can anyone point me in the right direction please to get this working on a regular network?? or is this not possible and need an ftp site to automate it?? cheers Quote
sim_rx3 Posted February 18, 2009 Author Posted February 18, 2009 come on guys we are like minded smart people surely this has been done before?? cheers Quote
uddfl Posted February 19, 2009 Posted February 19, 2009 What do you mean by attached? attached xrefs? sheets that are part of that revision? drawings being cross-referenced? The code to be installed into the title blocks...what type of code are we talking about? What is the final product supposed to be? part of the CAD files? a spreadsheet? plain text? What is the 'code' that you say FTP sites generate? I've never heard of this and I use an FTP server all the time. Quote
sim_rx3 Posted February 19, 2009 Author Posted February 19, 2009 sorry i mean code as in lisp routines to do the linking and attributes in the drawing to display the info i need on the actual drawing. so in the corner of the drawing a list of xrefs attached to the drawing with its revision number and date modified. in some ftp sites its all done by the site as each new architectual has its revision as part of its file name when uploaded. there is a set of attributes on the title block of the drawing the site updates through its workings. listing the architectual name/revision/date it was updated on the system. so basically what i want is a set of attributes that will list the files attached to the drawing that will show date modified and revision. although thinking about it now i suppose i could do it via a excel spread sheet that uses VBA. create CSV file from the input data. then use lisp routines to drive the attributes on the drawing from the CSV files to do it.. but this gets partially away from being full automated.. Quote
uddfl Posted February 19, 2009 Posted February 19, 2009 I understand what you need now but I'm sorry to say it's perhaps beyond my current capabilities. I think DBConnect might work. Generating the list of xrefs and their location sounds like the easy part. But I wouldn't know how to get the revision dates. Processes like this are rarely fully automated... does the power that be realize this is no mean task? Quote
sim_rx3 Posted February 19, 2009 Author Posted February 19, 2009 I understand what you need now but I'm sorry to say it's perhaps beyond my current capabilities. I think DBConnect might work. Generating the list of xrefs and their location sounds like the easy part. But I wouldn't know how to get the revision dates. Processes like this are rarely fully automated... does the power that be realize this is no mean task? ill have a look at DBConnect. thanks yeh ive been with a firm before that had a simple block in a drawing that was updated by lisp routines but that was only the attached xref file names, nothing more.. the powers to be want it a little more transparent as to whats used in the drawing (apparently to save time on there end when they want to know this stuff and the driving force for this request) but as you know everything will "only take 5 minutes" to do.. lol realistically id love for us to adopt an ftp site that does it all but im sure they would baulk at the yearly cost of such a thing.. haha Quote
uddfl Posted February 19, 2009 Posted February 19, 2009 Be sure to bump this later, there are some guys in here with great knowledge that might provide more useful info. Quote
sim_rx3 Posted February 25, 2009 Author Posted February 25, 2009 so can anyone help please? cheers Quote
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