User String One

Hello,

I would like to save the name of a file with the drawing. Does anyone
know a good way to do that?

The way I have always done before was to use one of the user variables
to keep the project number and then construct the file spec from that.

Now projects are often too big for just one data file.

I thought about getting the PROJECTNAME sysvar and doing something with
that.

What i really wish is that the User String variables were saved with the
drawing.

thanks in advance for any suggestions

jm

 

It all depends upon how you're going to use it - specifically if only
wiithin AutoCAD or from an external app too. Some options are:

Dictionary/Xrecord
XData or hidden attribute in titleblock
File's custom properties
piggyback an XML or ASCII text file

-- Mike
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Mike Tuersley
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Rand IMAGINiT Technologies
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Thanks Mike

those are some good ideas

by piggyback i assume you mean that i would have an ascii file with the same
name as the drawing? with a pointer to the data there?

i think i like the file properties deal best

any way to access that from VBA?

thanks again

jm