Automaically updating an autocad drawing in a Word document

Hi All, As well as drawings, we produce product manuals in Word. These are made up of text, photos and drawings. From Autocad we produce a wmf file and insert this as a link in the Word doc.

If the drawing is changed, we updated the wmf file, open the word doc and update the link. This can be a problem, as the manual is often forgotten about.

My question is that we are looking into getting a Document management system and are hoping there is some way of automating this procedure. Do any of you have an experience with drawings within word and how do you keep then up to date.

Thanks

So is your "link", a link to a WMF file on disk?

If so, then there really is no link to the actual DWG file, right?

That's correct. The link is to the wmf file.

Try Edit Copy link in Word paste special Autocad Drawing object I just did it and it seems to work not sure how good. Need to experiment.

Had another go look up linking in Word Help but does not seem to work with autocad maybe search web Linking Autocad Word