Recent content by WillOMalley

How do I change the Text in an Existing Block? The ACADBlock it's self does not have a TextString property or a Update property.. Thanks Will

Ok, I got Autocad to run from DOS Also got the code written to stamp the drawing with the Date time and users name. Here is my new problem How do I overwrite the text in the Block I created? Do I need to delete the Block and make a new one? Any help on this would be great Thanks Will

Ok.. maybe I am a little hard headed here I have a Script file names loadVB.scr in the support directory. I would like to use that to load a Visual Basic Project and run a macro.. is there an easy way to do this? thanks Will

Quick question Can i run a lisp file from a script file? thanks Will

Hello, Well I got pushed into a new project yesterday and found my self needing some help.. "Good thing I know where to go" So here is what I need to do: Launch AutoCAD R14 from DOS passing it a Drawing to open once open I need to Insert a Block of text into the drawing "Users Name" and the...

Mala I hope you dont mind me asking. I have a very interesting project that I just got pushed into and could use a little help. I need to launch Autocad R14 from the Web, have it load a drawing insert a block of text into the drawing then close with out anyone knowing that it happened. All the...

nic tip.. I will give it a try Will

Bradly, I would still like to talk to you sometime. As I can't post my email address on this forum. Do you have a suggestion? Thanks Will

I have gotten in trouble before for trying to post my Email on the forum. I get home around 5:30pm Eastern standard time NY my Yahoo Instant Messenger screen name is will_omalley. My AOL Instant messenger screen name is chaos14235 look for me if you have either one.. thanks will

Bradley A few questions if I may.. First let me say that I am sorry but I do not have an answer to your question. However,I am a programmer and have just gotten asked to write a little code for Solidworks. I see that you have code to export data from your Drawing to an external excel spread...

I did try the above code and got an error on compile. It said that ProMessageDisplay does not take 3 arguments.. So I looked in the ProMessage.h file Here is the declaration: extern ProError ProMessageDisplay( #ifdef PRO_USE_VAR_ARGS ProFileName file_name, ProCharLine message_name...

Well.. Intralink would be nice but costs a lot of money. The comapny that I work for is not really willing to go for the extra money. So I am stuck developing this application.. Even with all the articles and examples that you can find for the Pro Toolkit...

thank you again for all the help. I just have to create the aux file in the text directory I think the file path is C:\PTC\Wildfire\Text When I do create this file do I need to create a .dat file to call it? thank you again william o'malley

well after a long talk with my boss, we have decided to go about this another way. Here is what we would like to do. As Pro\W Wildfire is looking for each feature of an assembly I need to get the name of that component. Then connect to SQL Server 2000 and check to see if that file has been...

it would be nice if we could get an off the shelf solution for this but I am afraid that, that is not an option. I have been reading about asyncronous access to Pro Engineer Wildfire and I do have a valid license. When I try to build my project I get errors with my include files. I have added...