>Hi Roi,
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> Thank a lot for reading my thread - You helped me out before with a drg db,
>I'm still working on that with a friend - we tracked down an object dbx file that extracts attributes from dwg files when they aren't even open in Acad - pretty cool stuff!!

Great, glad you found something.

> Let me explain about this file path thing.... Some of the technicians in our office are a little 'hard of thinking', and come to me quite regularly just to print a dwg. This is mainly because they don't know where to find their dwg on the network/directories. I suppose I could manually put the file path on the drawing with a bit of text, but It would be really smart if I could use vb to do it for me. I just need to put say
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>"S:\NMSO3\Haslingden\Contract 1\Lime St.dwg" just in the top right hand corner of the dwg.

Rolling you own can get a little complex. You will need to decide when you want to update the text so it stays in-sync with the real dwg name. You could do it in VB by linking into and acad event or do it in lisp with a reactor. I haven't done either but you could look in the acad help and there is some info on both ways.

The easiest way would be to use rtext (part of the bonus utils) in autocad or use LiveText from http://www.dotsoft.com.

Both let you put a text string on the drawing and it updates itself automagically. LiveText would be the better choice because it gives you more control and it's only $50 us.

>By the way - I and just about everyone I know is in total support of the USA and the action you guys are taking against The Taliban, it was an Evil act of cowardice.

Thanks.

>Speak to you again some time - are you on ICQ?

Nope, I think I set it once along time ago for a day.