{"id":1896,"date":"2017-08-23T16:59:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T16:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2022-02-03T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:24:29","slug":"autocad-xdata-organization-refresher-cadworx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/autocad-xdata-organization-refresher-cadworx\/","title":{"rendered":"AutoCad XData Organization And Refresher &#8211; CadWorx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I am working with CadWorx. I needed a refresher on my Autocad XData &#8211; I suspected that is where the data was stored as CadWorx files seem to have a 3D shape and a line grouped together &#8230; but why? Well, the line had XDATA attached to it was my suspicion and I was right. Here are some links that I found helpful to get me re-oriented after 4 years of needing this info &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/knowledge.autodesk.com\/search-result\/caas\/CloudHelp\/cloudhelp\/2016\/ENU\/AutoCAD-AutoLISP\/files\/GUID-3481BF7B-73CB-4FD5-B421-C25BE92C6D56-htm.html\">XData organization straight from AutoCAD\u00a0<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/knowledge.autodesk.com\/search-result\/caas\/CloudHelp\/cloudhelp\/2016\/ENU\/AutoCAD-AutoLISP\/files\/GUID-A94BC605-5517-437F-A6FE-D3EB8116A01A-htm.html\">more (less useful) info on XData<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/knowledge.autodesk.com\/search-result\/caas\/CloudHelp\/cloudhelp\/2016\/ENU\/AutoCAD-ActiveX\/files\/GUID-A675254F-08B2-4048-95CB-DD7195616BC1-htm.html\">VBA \/ ActiveX Starter to get XData <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.autodesk.com\/t5\/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general\/find-all-xdata-application-names-in-drawing\/td-p\/5882859\">How to know what registered Apps exist in your file\/AutoCad install<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Whoa &#8211; thousands&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cadtutor.net\/forum\/showthread.php?39711-I-need-to-send-the-output-of-the-quot-LIST-quot-command-to-a-text-file\">How to spit out ACad command line to a log file<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.autodesk.com\/t5\/visual-basic-customization\/delete-regapps-with-vba\/td-p\/1316630\">or do it easily in VBA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/asp\/func_vartype.asp\">VBA variable types and what &gt;8197 means &#8211; it means 8192 + 5 (vbArray + vbDouble)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/knowledge.autodesk.com\/search-result\/caas\/CloudHelp\/cloudhelp\/2016\/ENU\/AutoCAD-AutoLISP\/files\/GUID-1A2A0518-E9DB-462E-925E-32181D96CE4D-htm.html\">Retrieving xData &#8211; to take a peek under the hood of a component<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I am working with CadWorx. I needed a refresher on my Autocad XData &#8211; I suspected that is where the data was stored as CadWorx files seem to have a 3D shape and a line grouped together &#8230; but why? Well, the line had XDATA attached to it was my suspicion and I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AutoCad XData Organization And Refresher - CadWorx - ELB Solutions.com Inc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/elbsolutions.com\/projects\/autocad-xdata-organization-refresher-cadworx\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AutoCad XData Organization And Refresher - CadWorx - ELB Solutions.com Inc.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So I am working with CadWorx. 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