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Searching Drawing Properties

Searching Drawing Properties

Searching Drawing Properties

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I have now accumulated 15 years of drawings.  Sometimes I want to look up previous drawings on some problem but like many systems my drawing files are named with a job number and arranged in folders of the year of their creation.  But my problem is that I want to find all the steel trussed bridges I have designed regardless of year.

I have previously set this up in a relational database.  But maybe this is too sophisticated and all I need do is to search the Autocad Drawing Properties.  

 I see you can store a lot of data there but how useful is that unless you can easily search on it.  How can I search the properties using Win 2000?

Escher

RE: Searching Drawing Properties

Could you possably search your files using the 'containing text...'info box of the search function and use the words 'trussed, steel, bridges' or whatever term you think would be common to all...Mike

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