Whats the most effective way to repath an entire drive

Darren,

I gotta say - the last class you taught at AU2002 regarding practical script
design and usage was probably the best class I attended (and I liked almost
all of them) - as far as putting the information to work at my office.

The information and tips you provided there has been MOST helpful to me over
the past year+ - and even the past week, btw.

Muchas gracias,
David Kozina

 

If there is a better solution out there I'd like to see it. So far it is the best thing available.
I like the reference manager but it cannot be updated. Terry is updating hs repather so
that in my book puts it ahead of the pack. As far as thumbnails, I have no idea. To which
program are you refering or are you saying that I will lose the thumbnails?

"Tony Tanzillo" <tony.tanzillo at caddzone dot com>
|>Best tool? Do you get to keep your thumbnail previews?

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I agree, but I do think that editing drawings without opening them in the typical
autocad editor would be a huge feature. Reference manager shows the potential.
Now I wish there was more programs out there to edit large scale drawing sets
without the autocad editor.

Darren J. Young <>
|>All of Autodesk's utilities for batch processing files, Attribute
|>Extraction Wizard, ScriptPro, Web Publishing Wizard, Batch Standards
|>Checker, Reference Manager, Batch Plot, Drawing Convertor all of them
|>with the exception of perhaps the Publish command, fall way short when
|>it comes to large scale use on thousands of drawings.
|>
|>That's why I still use scripts for most of my batch processing unless
|>it's something I need to do over and over, then I'll generate a VB
|>processing app for it.

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One thing I worry about with xrefs and post processing is that in the past you would
loose visretain type settings in your sheet file. Has that issue been completely 100%
resolved? Its pointless to fix the xref path after the fact if it screws up the settings in
the sheet file.

Darren J. Young <>
|>> Sorry to horn in on this but I wonder about the necessity of processing all
|>> these files before they are needed.
|>>
|>> I would have thought that you would just add the script or lisp to repath
|>> the drawing to the start up so that it would repath them as you loaded them
|>> to edit, print or distribute. Now "distribute" may be the place for batch
|>> processing but I still don't understand why you have to upgrade all your
|>> files to new versions or network system changes.
|>
|>I can see ripping through a whole server. Adding "on-demand as needed"
|>repathing code means only a portion of your archive is getting updated.
|>Some might get updated 2 years from now. And perhaps some, 10 or even
|>never. That "on demand" code then sits there forever. This time
|>repathing, next time something else. When do you know you can get rid of
|>it? Perhaps it's not a big deal for architects who once a project is
|>done don't have as great a need to call lon old drawings as a
|>manufacturer who's continually pulling from old drawings for the like of
|>their product lines.
|>
|>Also, this approach doesn't help LT user or users of viewing packages
|>where they can't perform on-demand conversions. And there's always the
|>chance that someone calls up a drawing in AutoCAD, just for viewing, but
|>then doesn't save it. So even then it doesn't get fixed.
|>
|>Your point is well taken however. There are times where "on-demand" code
|>can be helpful. In fact, I use a fair amount of it myself along with
|>processing an entire library of files. Just depends on what the changes
|>are and my need to access the files at a later date.

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See if your drawing files still have thumbnail
previews after making changes to them using a
VBA based solution.



AcadX for AutoCAD 2004 Beta 1
http://mysite.verizon.net/~vze2vjds/acadx/AcadX16.zip

 

correction its a VB based solution. Not sure if that makes a difference.
Terry you want to chime in on this subject?

"Tony Tanzillo" <tony.tanzillo at caddzone dot com>
|>See if your drawing files still have thumbnail
|>previews after making changes to them using a
|>VBA based solution.

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Thanks Darren,

This is the first time I have seen an answer for processing old drawings
that makes any sense.

Now I will have to rethink the drawing archives.

Dave Alexander
Keen Engineering Co. Ltd.
www.keen.ca