I’ll leave the complete exploration of the command up to you. To start with the block containing attribute create a hexagon with polygon command, to know about using Polygon command see the Polygon lesson from this AutoCAD tutorial series. The command can be used for more than just renaming blocks too. Import / Export a list of attributes to be edited from a Text or CSV file. Select blocks from the active drawing to use with the program. Increment attribute values across each processed drawing. Use Field Expressions in attribute values. The REN command was super useful, super easy, and it is my tip of the day. Modify attributes in all blocks with block name matching a given wildcard pattern. I of course chose the last option!! The Solution
How to select multiple blocks by layer or by name Right-click in the block selection dialog and choose Filter. At that point I could have left the drawing as is, I could have made new blocks with an orderly naming system and reinserted them, or I could have renamed the existing blocks with the AutoCAD REN command. Not directly, but you can use AutoCAD 2005+ fields in block attributes (or CADstudio LiveLabel) to fill in any drawing- or object property, and then export such computed attributes values to Excel sheets. As it stood, the block names I chose were more-or-less random.īy the time I realized the randomness of my block names I had already inserted many blocks into my drawing. I eventually realized that the names of the blocks would have been much more orderly if there was continuity to the way I named them. As I continued drafting, I continued creating more blocks of different power points. While drafting up this floor plan, I created a block for one of the power point symbols, and inserted it numerous times into the drawing.