DwgFind or DwgLocate?
DwgLocate is the new name for my previously named DwgFind; reason being another author had already used DwgFind.
So, Dwglocate ver 1.0 is newer then DwgFind ver 3.6.
Now you can try DwgLocate 4.0.
Review by http://3d2f.com/ journalist
DwgLocate, Searching Drawings
If you use AutoCAD on a daily basis, you definitely know how bad the problem is organizing drawings and searching for a necessary file among hundreds or thousands of others.
If you are a human (and not a robot-organizer, which has all files properly named, sorted by folders, archived, and so on), you can be scared by a task like “find file with a sketch of building A”, or “find all plans with place B”. The only signs that can give you a clue of what’s inside the file are the text labels on the drawings inside the file, but standard search tools are not capable of indexing and searching for AutoCAD files, since all texts inside the drawings are in a specifically-encoded format.
The solution is DwgLocate. It works just like a mature desktop search engine, with index creation and updating and then performing the fast search. But it’s a specialized search engine, which specifically addresses just DWG (AutoCAD) files.
The software is very simple and easy-to-use. In one window you can configure the desired folders to be indexed and re-indexed, where to store index data; and of course, you can search (with all usual options like “whole words only” or “case sensitive”).
Search results are rich enough: they are not just a bunch of file names; instead, they appear as file names accompanied by search strings found inside those files. And by clicking on the “Open and zoom” button you’ll immediately have the drawing opened and focused on the label you searched for.
Keywords: find search textual text information AutoCAD drawings zoom
AutoCAD release 2002 and higher (except for AutoCAD LT)
License: Freeware
Download dwglocate 4.0 (0.17 MB)
В России данная версия работать не будет. Включена в последнюю версию DYNAMO15.