Screen fills with text when downloading dwg file

I've gone into retirement and after first saying that was it with working I now find myself up to my neck in work. I've changed direction quite a bit and am now more involved with translation work than AutoCAD, but programming is still my main interest. To my problem: I was approached by a couple of translators about translating AutoCAD drawings and as there are a few programs out there that "can translate" the drawings I took a look at them, not wanting to reinvent the wheel.

I was unable to find any software that did both, but that's by the way. I saw that the software was written by programmers without an in depth knowledge of AutoCAD. The basic principle of the software is that the program extracts all of the text entities from the AutoCAD file and exports it to a text file. But a lot of the text entities are not translated by the software that I tested, for example XData, XRecords, etc, all of the so called "invisible" text.

I have an old VBA module that I wrote about 15 years ago that iterates all visible text entities on the screen allowing the checking of the text placement, to ensure there is no overlapping or over writing of text. This could be expanded to take care of "invisible" text and also written in.

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Filter by Lables. Message 1 of 8. So, here goes: Is there a way to search for text through all the DWG files within a drive note, not just within a file or a folder? Any help would be very very very!! Best regards to all, John. Tags 6. Message 2 of 8. Message 3 of 8. Message 4 of 8. Steven-G, Thank you for the reply. Improve Article. Like Article. How to trigger a file download when.

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