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(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>; "Andy" <nospam(at)noplace(dot)com>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and AutoCad

> --- On Thu, 10/25/07, Andy <nospam(at)noplace(dot)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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