Xref list outside of AutoCAD?

[John Schmidt]

'Anyone know where I might find a utility for listing xrefs in drawings while not in AutoCAD? It needs to include the paths to the xrefs also.

I know I can use DesignCenter in AutoCAD, but it only lists the xrefs by name, and not their location.

The reason for this is that we often burn milestone CDs that get saved in the paper file folders, and there might be 20 or more drawings per milestone, along with associated xrefs, but many xrefs are in different paths, while using standard naming conventions, so I can't just pick any topo-ex.dwg, etc. Right now, I have to open each drawing, verify the actual xref locations, and write them down - it's just real time consuming...

Etransmit is an option, but that generates all the files again, when I only want to copy them to CD.

Thanks for any ideas - John

 

[Ted Broekhuizen]

John,

I have been using XRepath from http://www.intelcad.com Works very well for me.

Ted

 

[John Schmidt]

Thanks for the link. It looks great but I don't know if I'll be able to justify that cost to the boss, since we only need something for simple xref listing. But I'll check out the trial version - maybe it'll do enough other things that I can justify it...

John

 

[John Schmidt]

I'll check into this - I found we have access to it because we're on subscription, but I find the following line confusing:

The Reference Manager Extension is a stand-alone tool that helps CAD managers and users manage complex file relationships and dependencies generated by AutoCAD® 2002 and the vertical products based on it.

If it's stand-alone, why does it require that the drawings be generated by R2002 and verticals or later? We're still using 2000i, (LDT2i), and I was under the impression the drawing format for R2000-R2002 was the same.

'Guess I'll have to download it and see what happens.

John

 

[Mike Weaver]

John,
Reference manager will read drawing files generated with any version of Acad, as far as I know. It's a great tool.

Mike Weaver