AutoCAD drawing keynote - legend reference add-on

[joeadm]

Hello,

Does anyone know of a product that will run within/work with AutoCAD 2002 and higher for a drawing noting system? AutoCAD r14 included a tool to do this, but we cannot find it in the newer versions. An add-on was recently purchased that was thought to work, but does it not provide the same functionality.

What is needed is a routine or external program that can run within a drawing with keynotes and reference an external database and insert the text that goes along with the keynote into a column on our drawing.

For example, a detail will be drawn and point to an object with a note that says "07460.F". There then needs to be a legend on the side of the sheet that says "07460.F VINYL TRIM". The progam needs to be able to scan the text on the sheet and generate the legend on the side of the sheet. The drawings are architectural in nature.

Any help is appreciated!

Joe

 

[CADaver]

I thought I was pretty familiar with R14, but I've never seen that tool, unless you're talking about ASE access. If so it's still there.

 

[joeadm]

CADaver, thanks for your reply.

I should have mentioned the previous ability to keynote was part of Architectural Desktop v3.2, not ACAD r14. I appologize for not making that clear in my first post.

Architectural Desktop v3.3 seems to be missing this feature. Some solutions have been found, but have more features than are actually needed.

Joe

 

[CADaver]

Ahhh, okay. Sorry We don't use ADT.

 

[borgunit]

You could write a little LISP routine if you needed to. Sounds like all you want is to search all text for certain "key words". If the words are found, the get the matching "description" and build a text BOM at some insert point. Does that sound correct?

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right "
.. Henry Ford

 

[joeadm]

borgunit,

That sounds like the concept exactly. Insert keywords, and then have those keywords indexed and a legend created. Know of any generic scripts that can be modified to do this?

 

[borgunit]

Sorry,
I do not know of any offhand. I have done some VB routines similar to what you are doing. Do you know VB?

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right "
.. Henry Ford

 

[joeadm]

I have played around w/ VB a while back. I might be able to pick it up again and get something simple working. I know people that know it too, so that could help.