>A friend of mine asked me to transfer his furniture design in Autocad format into database tables. Then using these tables, generate various reports like Bill of Materials and Job Costing.
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>I have no idea to convert his grapichal data into tables.
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>Is there anyone in UT can help me ?
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>I will appreciate any helps, comments and suggestions.
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>Thank you.

If this was a one-time deal... You could write a program to process the DXF file and extract the data. This is assuming that you know characteristics concerning the placement of data or a consistent font size or something like that. My team wrote a fox routine to extract data out of DXFs. The reason it worked was because we knew the font sizes, and specific box types/sizes used. Let me know if this is something worth talk about. I will tell U that this was no easy program to write and test!