Reference drawing - attribute extraction without opening the drawing

[dkennard]

Ok here's the silly question of the day.

Is there a way to extract attribute data from a drawing without opening the drawing first?

I was updating a bunch of reference drawing tables on a project this morning and thought it would be great if I could just select the drawing file (we always use part of the file name as the drawing number) and then extract the title attribute data from the drawing.

I know I can do this by opening the or inserting the reference drawing but it would be much slicker if I did not have to "open" the reference drawing to get at the title data.

I'm open to suggestions, or just plain old "thats the stoopidist idea ever"

Thanks

Dave.

[rkmcswain]

Is there a way to extract attribute data from a drawing without opening the drawing first?

Sure, just use the ._EATTEXT (2002-2007 versions) or the ._DATAEXTRACTION command (2008 and later)

[dkennard]

Thnaks RK, I will give this a shot today.
Dave.