dHeather
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Hello,
I have been given the task of creating a drawing register which is to incorporate thousands of previously unlogged historical drawings. All of these drawings are saved as AutoCAD .dwg files in a cascading folder structure. Each .dwg file contains a Drawing Block with attributes such as Title / Drawing Number / Designer etc. I need to extract these attributes (same format on every drawing) and drop them into an Excel spread sheet or a csv file.
Preferably I would like to do this without opening the drawing as I am not a CAD Engineer and the designers are running higher versions of CAD than my version can open.
I am not an experienced programmer, sorry, but have a basic understanding of VBA and VB.NET.
I can't believe I am the first person to want to do this, but I can't find any solutions I can follow anywhere.
Can anybody help please?
I have been given the task of creating a drawing register which is to incorporate thousands of previously unlogged historical drawings. All of these drawings are saved as AutoCAD .dwg files in a cascading folder structure. Each .dwg file contains a Drawing Block with attributes such as Title / Drawing Number / Designer etc. I need to extract these attributes (same format on every drawing) and drop them into an Excel spread sheet or a csv file.
Preferably I would like to do this without opening the drawing as I am not a CAD Engineer and the designers are running higher versions of CAD than my version can open.
I am not an experienced programmer, sorry, but have a basic understanding of VBA and VB.NET.
I can't believe I am the first person to want to do this, but I can't find any solutions I can follow anywhere.
Can anybody help please?
