Extracting attributes from AutoCAD drawing has never been easier

CADEx Project Manager

Introduction:

Extracting attributes from AutoCAD drawing has never been easier. CADEx is software series of standalone power tools for processing AutoCAD drawings.

Each of the products will be offered for free evaluation, so that you can try all its features with no hassle and then decide, if it’s worth buying.

If you have certain particular need in terms of standalone processing of AutoCAD files, please let us know hextech@vsnl.com. It’s quite possible that we will be able to address your need in one of our DWG tools

It is used for extracting many different drawing elements. It was originally written to speed up custom program development time by standardizing data extraction and update functions.

CADEx Series of Software provides a generic system for extracting user-specified categories of data from one or a large number of DWG files, into a Database Management System (DBMS) such as Microsoft Access, Oracle or SQL/Server. Once extracted, manipulations of the data can be done in the database system by means of the data system’s commands or the SQL database script language. Finally the results of the data manipulations can be exported to other formats for reports or for updating the user’s office-wide Electronic Data Management system (EDM).

CADEx Series of Software can handle all DWG versions up to and including 2000

The dataflow using ' CADEx Series of Software’

Two kinds of expertise are required...

A thorough understanding of the inner workings of AutoCAD,
And a thorough understanding of database query writing in the chosen DBMS.

CADEx Series of Software can execute SQL scripts for automated operation of the data manipulation stages within the CADEx Series of Software session. For those who are not proficient in writing standard SQL, some DBMS programs, such as MS Access, have tools to generate SQL scripts using Wizards and other Visual techniques.

For those with needs for bulk AutoCAD data manipulation but who lack the above skills, we can develop custom systems to carry out whatever is wanted without any need for user understanding of the technicalities involved. For cases where user skill is available but all the facilities are not needed, restricted feature versions of CADEx Series of Software are available at less cost. If you have ever build (or attempted to build) custom software to do anything like this, you will realize that this is very good value.

Data extraction is generally used to populate tables in the database. Often this data is combined with data from the user's Engineering Document Management System (EDMS) and/or tables of predefined standards to produce Audit or Compliance reports.

The Errors table is populated during processing. Each entry includes the name of the drawing in which the error occurred, the name of the error, and the reason for the error. Once an error is encountered further processing is abandoned and any update file is not saved. The list of errors can be exported, but in any case should be checked every time an operation is performed.

CADEx is a unique and extremely powerful tool that will appeal to system developers and to office systems supervisors. If it sounds like a tool that may be useful to you, visit the contact hextech@vsnl.com