I try to create a road sign GIS drawing. I would like to extract all "sign" block from our archived drawings. Is there a way to batch scanning 1000 drawings for a specific block name?
View 3 RepliesWe're using AutoCAD Electrical 2012 and on our drawings itkeeps 'scanning the drawing' between every command. You select a line, it scans. You copy by basepoint, it scans, you blink, it scans. How can I make it stop? It is slowing us down and annoying us to no end.
I've already tried the layers filter selected to all and this doesn't fix our problem.
I opened an existing 3d model and everytime I do anything to the model or even just click somewhere is scans the drawing every single time.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have an issue with a drawing created in AutoCad 2002. Whenever I open it to edit it and then either Print or Save it shows Scanning Drawing and takes considerable amount of time for this process.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow to find no of times specific blocks used in a drawing?
View 9 Replies View RelatedHow do I manipulate a height parameter all of the dynamic blocks in the drawing from one single field? Say a field located in the drawing properties or on the drawing itself.
For example: Multiple blocks of different walls of same height with other blocks of things on located on those walls, dependant on the wall height, all linked to and changed by a single field. Possibly a Wall Height field located in the custom tab of the drawing properties.
I can pickout each of the blocks and change them at the same time in properites menu because they all share the same parameter name. I would just like to have that height parameter of every block in the drawing, that has that specific parameter controled by a single field. Which I could enter a new height at anytime that would change every block in the drawing to that height.
I would like to scan some original pen and ink drawings I do and I'd like to remove the background once they are on the page so I can manipulate the art. I work in Corelx4. Will this same technique work with book pages scanned in?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am editing an existing block to change the lineweight and have tried using the REFEDIT command as well as double clicking the block to take me into the block editor and making my changes there. I am sucessfully able to edit my block and make the changes using both of these methods. Where I am running into an issue is that the block I have edited only retains its new settings within the drawing that I changed it in. If I insert that same block into a new drawing I have to re-edit the block again the make the changes that I want. Why are my blocks not retaining their settings from drawing to drawing.
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhere I can download drawing blocks for cable racks? More specificaly I'm looking for cable ladder.
View 2 Replies View RelatedThe text set in the Section Annotation Block Symbols move when the block is copied from one drawing file to another. Regardless if in the block editor, the position of the test remains the same.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI wanted to get opinions on the most efficient way of creating & saving title blocks, with regards to using them in future projects.
1. Create a title block in model space then save it as a .dwt file
OR
2. Create a title block in model space then save it as a block
I can't imagine there's a right or wrong way, just wanted get your input. Chances are you all know something I don't.
I would like to make a list on my drawing of my blocks. Not with part reference. How do I do that?
View 9 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to do this within 2012 or would I need to use a script?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a question. I have several 3d models i've set up with 3d blocks in each one. They're separate to cut down on drawing size. I want to create a database of blocks so to speak by copying all the blocks into one drawing. I tried going through Design Center to copy the blocks in, but it won't let me just copy them. Is there a simple way to do this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhat is the fastest way to extract blocks from a drawing
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to copy and paste a bar scale from one drawing into another at 0,0…. But it won’t show-up, as you can see from the attached there are 17 blocks in this drawing but none of them will show-up, I have even tried to re-insert the block but still no joy….. I have re-started AutoCAD, even the computer but still nothing…….
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a very simple dynamic block that works when I test it in the editor but refuses to work when inserted into a drawing. I am not a newbie to dynamic block creation/editing, but it has been a long time since I have had to create one and this has got me stumped.
Is it possible that my employer has somehow blocked the use of dynamic blocks in drawings?
What i want is to create a treeview that lists all the blocks. I can achieve that trough iterating the blocktable record.
No i can populate all the blocks in the control.
But how can i get a list of all block references in model and paperspace.
I am looking for a macro that can edit the default value off the attriburte for each block in the drawing. The new value must be empty.
But there is one exception. When the length of the current value is equal to 8 then the macro's has to do nothing and the macro must continue to the next block.
i basically need to extract all the blocks and quantities used in a drawing as the drawing we make are usually really big and takes time to pan around to count all blocks.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI created a dynamic block table and I try to insert into a drawing, however, it doesn't work, all block data are gone.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI produce windows and doors. and I reproduce the same drawing in the attachment a lot.
Is there a way to make it a dynamic block where I change the three dimensions in the drawing and the whole thing grows or shrinks symmetrically and proportionally?
I'm trying to find the quantities of blocks on drawing. I used "quick select" command - select by Block Reference. My blocks have some customer’s attributes (for example type of block) which I couldn't find on block reference list.
View 9 Replies View RelatedHave more than one drawing template? (we use A and B size sheets)
My questions concerns, metric vs imperial A vs B vs C etc etc drawing sheet size title block does not scale down accordingly when change sheet size within an existing drawing template.
Is it possible to have one drawing template that can be toggle imperial vs metric, and then sheet size selected and then the title block scaled down or up accordingly? (I would assume this could be done using iLogic)
Or is it normal to have different drawing templates for sizes and units?
I am currently setting up some new blocks for a handrail and balustrade system. Our supplier has handed me 100's of 3D drawings of components, I now need to convert these to 2D blocks to be used within drawings.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to insert a block into a drawing that uses dynamic blocks. I want the block to be associated to the dynamic block, so that when I alter a linear stretch parameter on the dynamic block it moves the other block.
I am probably missing something obvious, but have now googled my mind into a numb state and can't make any more progress.
I need to list all the blocks in my drawing and how many of each there are.
View 7 Replies View Relatedwe have recently changed our standard text style from ISOCP to ARIAL NARROW. I have a drawing with text in the blocks that is still ISOCP, i would like to know how to change all the block attributes text style in one go.
View 4 Replies View RelatedQuick one on Dynamic blocks.... we are using Dynamic blocks more and more as a company, we are finding that when in a drawing which contains lots of dynamic blocks, then go into Dynamic Block Editor - amend the block - Then when closing the block Editor to get back into the drawing the drawing goes really slow untill we close it down and restart it.
Is there a setting we need to change OR is there something obvious that we are missing. i.e should we be minimizing the amount of dynamic blocks in our drawings or uncomplicate them?
In an attempt to fix a corrupt drawing, a user changed the "Scale Z" value of All Blocks in the drawing to "1", and the corruption seems to have gone away.
Audit and Recover error reports were giving her an idea that the problem was related to block scaling, "AcDbBlockReference(xxx) scale invalid uniform", so in desperation she tried changing all the Scale Z values to 1, and it seemed to have worked, for now.
A lot of these blocks were in the drawing at the drawing plot scale, like 20 or 30 (civil engineering).
The drawing was quite old. Originally came from another firm, in ACAD 2000. It a large existing conditions drawing, that just went sour in the past couple of weeks. But now it seems to be working just fine.
This all led to a discussion on "What does the Scale Z value of a block mean? Why is it there? What does it do?" None of us know.
Is it at all possible that it really was the cause of the corruption? All blocks were in the drawing at an elevation of zero.
I have a drawing with some annotative blocks. ie Block name "BAR'.
If I insert another drawing (mostly old v2000 files) as a block which also contains blocks named "BAR" (which of course are non-annotative) the Blocks do not show up.
Is there any way to get arround this? Idealy I would like the old file inserted and have the annotion scale of the blocks in the inserted dbg set to the current scale.