peter
2005-04-21, 02:52 PM
Hey Autodesk
Well you have probably heard this before, but making the refedit command be able to edit and change unexplodable anonymous minserts has closed one way that used to be available to programmers to lock down backgrounds to prevent certain detailers and customers from changing parts of drawings that they should be.
Lets face it ... AutoCAD needs to add some security controls to its object model.
One way to do it would be like the unexplodable xdata trick (ask Autodesk Programmer Randy Kintzley) that allows a programmer to make a block unexplodable. Maybe it could be modified to prevent a block from being refedited. If the block has the unexplodable xdata that refedit would reject editing it.
Or Encorporate Cadlock software into the base package
Peter Jamtgaard P.E.
AUGI Programming Chair.
Well you have probably heard this before, but making the refedit command be able to edit and change unexplodable anonymous minserts has closed one way that used to be available to programmers to lock down backgrounds to prevent certain detailers and customers from changing parts of drawings that they should be.
Lets face it ... AutoCAD needs to add some security controls to its object model.
One way to do it would be like the unexplodable xdata trick (ask Autodesk Programmer Randy Kintzley) that allows a programmer to make a block unexplodable. Maybe it could be modified to prevent a block from being refedited. If the block has the unexplodable xdata that refedit would reject editing it.
Or Encorporate Cadlock software into the base package
Peter Jamtgaard P.E.
AUGI Programming Chair.