As part of a cataloguing operation I was looking for a mechanism to extract (title block) text from .dwg files and found CAD::Drawing. It seems to provide the bones to do the task.

So, following good Perl practice I'll be lazy and ask if any monks have used CAD::Drawing successfully for this task and know of any traps-for-new-players that should be avoided.

Thanks.

Updates

• Yes, I read the PoD. And am attempting to read source/debug to work out if/how to do what I want.
• Yup, this is back burner stuff, and I'm still struggling to get it installed (for some reason cannae download directly from cpan directly, and am playing patch pony). And I've yet to find a ppm for my platform (Win32)
• 2004.03.02 Came back to the problem and found some comments from the author at DBforums

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