On Extracting Drawing Heading Table Informations and Importing Them Automatically into PDM Database
Jian Wang · Mechanical Science and Technology · 2000
It is an important technology in the development and implementation of PDM to extract automatically and accurately the information of drawing Heading Table(HT) and to import automatically these informations into the PDM database. In this paper, we present a method employing the ActiveX Automation technology to implement the automatic extraction of HT information in AutoCAD drawings, such as DWG or DXF files. Different templates should be generated for different kinds of HT before the extraction. The paper describes the algorithm of extraction and the details of a HT template definition.