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I hope it's the right place and I'm still within the forum scope...

 

Is it possible to open a drawing that is located in  Autodesk Construction Cloud and zooming to a location having x,y coordinates?

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If in a dwg ZOOM c point scale will do what you want. Just zoom in to a point at desired view then do Zoom c pt pick screen center the scale will appear, round it up or down eg zoom c pickpoint 50.

Edited by BIGAL
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Thank you for he answer. I'm sorry - I asked a rubbish quality question. I want to be able to open and zoom to a location using a link. Opening with a link obviously works, but I'm trying to find out if it's possible to open & zoom.

 

Use case: we have an export of data from a drawing located in the ACC. That information includes x,y locations of AutoCAD blocks on a fairly busy drawing. I want to be able to create a link that allows to open the drawing (easy part) and zoom to the x,y point. Using a fixed scale, to make thing easier. It's really question about the ACC, not strictly about what AutoCAD can do.

 

Edit: there might be something in the ACC API 

Edit2: I will have block id exported as well, but there is nothing in the API (or I can't find it) that would allow going directly to a block. I have to open a drawing, Model Browser and click on a block to zoom on it.

Edited by pefi
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It is possible to open Autocad and run a script, Ok that solves one problem of your task the script has the zoom part. Now the bad news you need to write inside the script say a zoom c pt sc or use a ssget "X" to find the block and get its insertion point then do the zoom using lisp in the script. 

 

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No idea about the ACC.

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Thanks, interesting idea, but won't work in my work environment. I think I might approach it from a different angle. Make a local library of all files and the I won't have to deal with the ACC.

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