Re: PostgreSQL and AutoCad

If your holy grail is the ability of using infomation to drive drawings I have to ask if you have any idea what that could lead too?

- Design productivity would increase by factors of hundreds - perhaps thousands.

- Information would be infinitly adaptable.

- Structure that information properly and knowedge will result.

- We would begin to realize the full potential of computing power.

Is that what you were saying??

Bob

----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Broersma Jr" <rabroersma@yahoo.com>

To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>; "Andy" <nospam@noplace.com>

Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 9:13 PM

Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and AutoCad

--- On Thu, 10/25/07, Andy <nospam@noplace.com> wrote:

>> Is there any way of converting text from an

AutoCad (.dwg ot .dxf) file into

>> a PostgreSQL  Database??

Do you want AutoCad to edit the drawings right out of the

database?  How

would you want to put them in/get them out, of the

database?

I think the more traditional problem is to extract information embedded (within blocks) in a drawing to produce a bill of material.  As long as the text is stored in a block it is a trivial task.  On the other hand, if the text is free floating in the drawing, finding it is a little more difficult but still possible using lisp or vba.

Auto cad has prebuilt tools to extract/link data from blocks to any ODBC compliant database.  Of course, the holy grail would be to eliminate auto cad altogether and then render drawings from the data stored in the database. :-)

Regards,

Richard Broersma Jr.

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