dwg miner dll is a powerful activex component for quickly extracting and setting data in autocad drawing (dwg) files. dwg miner dll contains many functions for updating text values, updating block attribute values, setting layers on/off/frozen/thawed, setting external reference file paths, setting image file paths, creating xml files from drawing data, creating dxf files from drawings, saving drawings as different versions, creating excel workbooks from drawing data, updating databases (sql server, access, oracle, sybase,etc.) with drawing data, and much more! this product is compatible with all autocad drawing versions and does not require autocad to be installed.