Description

The general idea with this app is to supply a tool where drawing data may easily be collected and synchronized centrally and exported to Excel.

Initially use the administrator module to create and save project information and drawing data in a central project file.
When a DLM (Drawing List Manager) project has been created, configured and saved in the top folder of the drawings folder tree, this app will look for title block attribute values in each AutoCAD® document. Whenever a specified drawing number attribute tag is found, attribute values in the title block will be synchronized with data in the DLM project file.
The synchronization may run from database to drawing or from drawing to database as configured.
The synchronization may be set to run automatically or manually.

General Usage Instructions

The administrator module
The administrator module handles the DLM database that holds all needed project data and drawing data.

• general project data such as which title blocks to use, which attribute tags to handle inside the title blocks and which Excel document to eventually contain the public drawing list.
• specific drawing data (in the drawings datatable).

Data is saved in an xml database file always named project.dlmdb and always saved in the AutoCAD project root folder.

The AutoCAD® module
The users may decide when to let the app update drawing title block data.

Automatically read the central DLM project data file and update when opening a drawing (database to drawing) and saving a drawing (drawing to database).
or …
Automatically read the central DLM project data file and update only when opening a drawing (database to drawing).
or …
Automatically read the central DLM project data file and update only when saving a drawing (drawing to database).
or …
Disable automatic updates.
If automatic updates are disabled, the user may update manually either from database to drawing or from drawing to database.

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