My company has a series of "standards" for our CAD files that nobody seems to follow for archiving old CAD files (I'm trying to get them to upgrade to BIM Collaborate or something , but it's expensive; side issue; I miss version control from my SWE days).
I'd like to be able to open extract the Xref paths from a CAD file (.dwg) and modify them such that I can do a SaveAs on the file and put it in an archive folder elsewhere on the company network.
I'm going to assume Python would be the easiest to do this in due to the sheer number of libraries. Though I'm most familiar with C# and C (the latter probably is going to take intricate knowledge of .dwg files to do what I want I'm sure). Maybe even a batch file or Powershell command file, but that's probably too limited in functionality (without help anyway). I would imagine in order to run an Autocad LISP script, I'd actually need the program open and rely on the good-faith of the other employees to run the script (which they won't do, just like they don't do now). I'd rather automate it in the background.
