If your holy grail is the ability of using
infomation to drive drawings I have to ask if you have any idea what that
could lead too?
- Design productivity would increase by factors of
hundreds - perhaps thousands.
- Information would be infinitly adaptable.
- Structure that information properly and knowedge
will result.
- We would begin to realize the full potential of
computing power.
Is that what you were saying??
Bob
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL and AutoCad
>> Is there any way of converting text
from an
AutoCad (.dwg ot .dxf) file into
>> a PostgreSQL Database??
Do you want AutoCad to edit the drawings right
out of the
database? How
would you want to put them in/get them out, of
the
database?
I think the more traditional problem is to
extract information embedded (within blocks) in a drawing to produce a
bill of material. As long
as the text is stored in a block it is a trivial task. On the other hand, if the text
is free floating in the drawing, finding it is a little more difficult but
still possible using lisp or vba.
Auto cad has prebuilt tools to extract/link data
from blocks to any ODBC compliant database. Of course, the holy grail would
be to eliminate auto cad altogether and then render drawings from the data
stored in the database. :-)
Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.
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