Autocad scripting question

[Mar71n]

Hello,

I'm new to the forum - hopefully I'll be posting up here more in future...

I have very little autocad scripting knowledge, but I am a programmer, so writing autocad scripts should be no problem.
I'm looking to solve a problem, and I wonder if someone could tell me whether this is even vaguely within the scope of autocad scripts.

I work on many cad files, and these same files are edited by other people. A version control system isn't possible due to several factors I won't go into here. What I want to do is to write a script to evaluate the contents of two cad files, and insert anything not existing in the second drawing from the first.

Even as I write this question, I am fairly sure that I won't be able to do this with autocad scripts - the files could be named to a particular convention (ie file1 and file2) to eliminate the need for any user input (I know scripts can't handle that) - but is it possible to dump the coordinates,layers etc of every object into a text file, so a second script can add any of those objects not already in the second file?

Any input appreciated - hopefully someone can suggest some method I can use to solve this problem, which eats up a lot of time!

Thanks,

Martin

 

[TCARPENTER]

Hi Martin,

Seems to me I've seen something similar to this, if I remember right, it didn't dump everything like you want, but I think you might be able to modify it to do what you want without a whole lot of heart-ache. I'm afraid I don't remember where I saw it but a couple of places to start are: cadshack and caddepot .

Once you modify the routine to work how you want, you script/batch the process.

HTH
Todd