Accessing Data from the DRAW Database

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Accessing Data from the DRAW Database

All DRAW (PADD) attributes are accessible. For example, attribute ABCD of the current annotation element would be accessed by code #ABCD. In addition the name of any DRAW element can be accessed. For example:


#VIEW	The name of the View owning the annotation element
#DRWG	The name of the Drawing owning the annotation element

Attributes of other DRAW elements can be accessed using the FROM qualifier. For example:


#AUTH<FROM DRWG>	Generates the Author of the Drawing owning the annotation elements. Refer to Extracting Attribute Data from any Specified Element for full details of the FROM qualifier.

AVEVA E3D™ pseudo-attributes may be accessed in the same manner.

A single integer qualifier may be specified to attributes that require them using the optional ^ delimiter.

The following special codewords are also available:


#DTITL	Drawing title, equivalent to #TITL<FR DRWG>
#STITL	Sheet title, equivalent to #TITL<FR SHEE>
#VTITL	VIEW title, equivalent to #TITL<FR VIEW>

Special functionality is provided for the following codewords that extract revision data:


#APPR	Approve
#APDT	Approval date
#RVSN	Revision
#RVDT	Revision date
#RVAU	Revision author

These codewords extract their data from the first REVI element in the Sheet’s list. If the qualifier <FR DRWG> is appended then data will be extracted from the first REVI element in the Drawing’s list. To extract data from a specific REVI element a qualifier should be used. The REVI element can be specified by name, for example:

or the pseudo-reference array attributes SREVAY and DREVAY can be used. For example:


#RVDT<FR SREVAY[2]>	Generates the revision date from the sheet's second revision
#APPR<FR DREVAY[3]>	Generates the approver from the drawing's third revision

Refer to Drawing Revisions for further information about the SREVAY and DREVAY attributes.

Refer to Extracting Attribute Data from any Specified Element for further information about the FROM qualifier.

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