DWG IFilter 2007 - beta available
Marco van Schagen
We have been working at CAD & Company to release a new version of our
DWG IFilter. We have finished the first rounds of beta testing now and
we'd like to present the result as a trial to all of you. Current
version is beta R5, which is our first release candidate. Please get
it at www.dwgifilter.com
What is a DWG IFIlter? Why this release? An IFilter generally allows
your search and search indexing product to access a certain file type;
and for non-Microsoft file types you need a non-Microsoft IFilter. At
CAD & Company we have the DWG IFIlter available for a couple of years
now - and due to evolution in Microsoft Search products we needed to
also add some new technology to the IFilter. Additionally we took our
time to allow for a one-click deploy to avoid all the hard work the
system administrators needed to do before to get it working wit
SharePoint WSS and MOSS.
With making the DWG IFilter available to a wider public we also hope
to promote the possibilities offered by any Search solution. Search
can serve as a quick directory to all your files, organized,
historical and all, and I believe this will give you a good
performance gain within your team and work environment.
So, pick up your beta and try it as long as the trial offer lasts. On
non-commercial desktop systems you should be able to continue the
trial free of charge.
Good luck,
Marco
On 3 Apr, 14:57, "Marco van Schagen" <marcovanscha...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Mar 30, 10:32 pm, "Rob Tanner" <rtan...@cls.usask.ca> wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to look through a drawing file's database in VBA, without
> > loading it and generating the model. I'm trying to parse information out of
> > a whack of files and loading all the graphics takes time and is unnecessary.
>
> > Regards,
> > Rob
>
> Hi Rob,
> Typically developers use a library that allows loading theDWGfile
> into a 'database'. Then your code can query the database and retrieve
> the required information. We at CAD & Company (in the Netherlands)
> started to use the official RealDWG library by AutoDesk, available
> only to selected developers for a yearly fee. Other libraries are
> available, but I believe none are free.
>
> An other option to get data from a specific file is to use anIFilter.
> Actually IFilters are developed to be used by search indexers such as
> Windows Desktop Search or SharePoint, but anyone can use theifilter
> in custom code. TheIFilterserves as a translater and would read the
> textual contents from the file for you, and you can then
> programmatically extract the text from theIFIlter.
>
> We are developing a new version of ourDWGIFilter. The new version is
> able to read files up to AutoCAD 2007 and 2008 - and is expected to be
> released in a couple of weeks. A free trial will be available, also it
> is free for non-commercial desktop use. For now, you can start testing
> with our 2005 trialDWGIFilter, available atwww.cadcompany.nl/ifilter
>
> I have not seen VBA samples to use theIFilterin such a way, I would
> be interested in helping you here - especially when this results in
> cool code samples I can publisch on myIFiltersupport site. Some
> samples in C# and VB are available. I believe you may be able to use
> the code sample from the next article:http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/DesktopSearch1.asp?df=100&forumid=1...
> additionally, the article seems to point to more code samples.
>
> So, if the information you need is text-based, you can use ourIFilter
> and go with theIFiltertrick. You can try this for free.
> Alternatively you would need to purchase adwgreading library.
> Good luck, and please keep us posted!