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#22138 #Picking off XREFS Message #22169
From: Steve Manes Autodesk AutoCAD Forum · AutoLISP/ADS November 26, 1991 10:25 PM
I did, but since this application is intended for a vertical market reseller, I can't count on the XLG file not being removed by some eager sysadm's maintenance. After a few hours of anatomy with a binary editor I managed to leach out a (so far) reliable, non-API method of…
#21897 #Picking off XREFS Message #21947
From: Steve Manes Autodesk AutoCAD Forum · AutoLISP/ADS November 25, 1991 7:28 PM
I'm working on a network check-out utility for AutoCAD and need to be able to extract XREF filenames from a drawing file. The check-out utility will actually fetch and keep track of the files that AutoCAD needs from the drawing, making the necessary network requests and placing them on the…
#21653 #Picking off XREFS Message #21735
From: Steve Manes Autodesk AutoCAD Forum · AutoLISP/ADS November 24, 1991 12:43 PM
Thanks for the reply. Are you aware of any API library functions that would let me fetch these names out of a drawing directly?
#Picking off XREFS Message #21553
From: Steve Manes Autodesk AutoCAD Forum · AutoLISP/ADS November 22, 1991 11:19 PM
I have an application where I need to be able to open an AutoCAD drawing and extract the filenames of XREF objects. I need to be able to do this outside of AutoCAD itself. Does anyone have any code that accomplishes this or can anyone give me pointers on how…