Batch X-ref Drawing File zipping tool !

Hi all,

Our firm is of a typical outsourcing type, wherein we send the completed drawings at the end of day.These drawings are containing X-refs. Hence we WinZip the files along with path, so that while extracting, they are placed to correct paths in the counterpart' s machine. We are spending a lot of time to find the x-refs, and zip them along with Final drawings.

Is there any easy tool in AutoCAD or 3rd party, to furnish the above task?

If the tool adds an extra menu item "Zip all xrefs" in Right click menu on Windows Explorer, it is helpful. i.e. When we right click on a batch of files in Windows Explorer, we should be able to easily zip them.The tool should also see that, the xrefs once zipped are not duplicated.

Regards,
Pradeep Hebbar

 

Use Express Tools, comes with AutoCAD. Oh...well it depends on what version
of AutoCAD you have.

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Saludos, Ing. Jorge Jimenez, SICAD S.A., Costa Rica

drawings at the end of day.These drawings are containing X-refs. Hence we
WinZip the files along with path, so that while extracting, they are placed
to correct paths in the counterpart' s machine. We are spending a lot of
time to find the x-refs, and zip them along with Final drawings.

Windows Explorer, it is helpful. i.e. When we right click on a batch of
files in Windows Explorer, we should be able to easily zip them.The tool
should also see that, the xrefs once zipped are not duplicated.

 

That's what the eTransmit command is for inside AutoCAD. If you want an
external tool, I'm sure there are enough folks here who'd write it for you
for a fee.

-- Mike
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Mike Tuersley
CADalyst's CAD Clinic
Rand IMAGINiT Technologies
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the trick is to realize that there is no spoon...

 

Use this Express Tool
AutoCAD 2000i/2002 = PACK
AutoCAD 2004/2005 = ETRANSMIT

 

Hi all,

Thanks! I understood about eTransmit in 2004. But it is not of much use, when we have to zip all the files in a single zip file.

Rgds,
Pradeep Hebbar

 

Use the option to put them in a folder. This prevents duplicate resources
(fonts, etc). Then zip the folder.

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Ed
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when we have to zip all the files in a single zip file.