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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…
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…
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
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…