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#Accessing ACAD ".DWG" Fi

    15-Apr-88 12:14:41
Sb: #Accessing ACAD ".DWG" Fi
Fm: JIM MC MILLAN 72067,2076
To: All
I would like to know if it is possible to extract information from a Drawing file "<DRAWINGNAME.DWG>". I am looking at writing a program that can access binary files and extract information for data processing. The kind of information could either be in a text format or in the contents of an attribute block. If anyone has knowledge on how AutoCad stores this information in the drawing file I would appreciate a response. By the way, I do not want to use "DXF" files as this is not a productive way to meet our needs. Regards, Jim Mcmillan.