AutoCAD® slide library files

AutoCAD® slide library files are used for making slide shows with AutoCAD® and for some preview functions in specific AutoCAD® dialogs, such as the hatch pattern dialog, in AutoCAD® versions older than AutoCAD® 2000. Furthermore you could like to incorporate support for slide files into your own programs. Firstly, create some slide files and then merge them to a slide library file. To merge a slide file (*.SLD) into a slide library file (*.SLB), you have several options:


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Use a tool like AutoCAD Slide Library Manager
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Use my tool, named Slide Library Manager (A link to my program will be here when uploaded.
It needs to be rewritten!)
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Find other (commercial) tools in the internet.

Here is the description of the general format of a slide library (AutoCAD® Release 9 and later):


general file format description
32 bytes . . . "AutoCAD Slide Library 1.0" CR LF ^Z NUL NUL NUL NUL
36 bytes . . . one or more slide directory entries
variable length . . . one or more slides

Slide directory entries have the following format:

32 bytes . . . a NUL terminated slide name
4 bytes . . . the address of the slide within the library

The slide address is always written with the low-order byte first. Each slide to which the directory points is a complete slide file as described in this section. The end of the slide directory is signified by an entry with a null slide name (first byte is NUL).


last update: 2009-12-30 - 19:41:19.
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