About the CAD link events

The CAD link category of events allows you to customize the behavior of the links to the various applications that Meridian supports. These events occur when the link commands are run from within the Meridian desktop client applications. They do not occur when the link commands are run from within the linked applications.

The events that occur for the application link commands (in alphabetical order) are shown in the following lists in the sequence that they occur.

Synchronize properties from file event sequence

• DocGenericEvent_PrepareCommand
• DocCADLink_InitializeUpdateProperties
• DocCADLink_BeforeUpdateProperties
• DocCADLink_AfterReadProperty¹
• DocCADLink_AfterUpdateProperties
• DocCADLink_TerminateUpdateProperties

Synchronize properties to file event sequence

• DocCADLink_InitializeUpdateProperties
• DocCADLink_BeforeUpdateProperties
• DocCADLink_BeforeWriteProperty¹
• DocCADLink_AfterUpdateProperties
• DocCADLink_TerminateUpdateProperties

Synchronize references from file event sequence

• DocCADLink_InitializeUpdateReferences
• DocCADLink_BeforeUpdateReferences
• DocCADLink_AfterUpdateReferences
• DocCADLink_TerminateUpdateReferences

1. Once for each property.

Each of the application link event procedures is described in the following topics.