Renaming Attribute Tags?

[irneb]

PS: If this can be done with a script that would be much easier.

That's actually the whole point of these lisps - otherwise (as the original post states) the BAttMan command can do this for you (one at a time).

Any lisp code can be placed directly into a script, or you can load a LSP file from a script, or you can of course call any lisp defun from a script. You should see a script file as a file containing all the keystrokes you type into ACad's command-line. It's as if you tell acad, read the file as if it is the keyboard.

[irneb]

I've re-written my routine to use ActiveX. It now allows nested block references as well.

The routine contains 2 commands:

RenAttrSet
This opens a dialog to create the list of OldName-NewName pairs, so you don't have to make these manually. On the left will be listed all the attributed blocks in the drawing, you add them to the list to be renamed (multiple selection with Shift/Ctrl+Click)
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Then click on the block-name in the middle column, the existing attribute names will be shown in the right column. As you select any one of these, you can then enter the new name below. After clicking the Save button the right-column is updated to show the new name: <NewName>.
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Once you've completed the list of attributes, click the OK button - this will then save these settings to a file so the same settings are available in the future on different DWG files.

Some extra notes:
The list of attributes shows even duplicate attributes in their order of appearance in the block. This is so you can rename (say) the 2nd of the duplicates to something else to make their names unique.

Even if you have some block references with attributes not found in the definition, these attributes will be shown in the list. That way you can rename them before performing AttSync and loosing their contents.

If you start the same command in another DWG, you can again add even the same blocks. This will append any extra attributes into the settings list - none of your old settings will be removed. In this way you can build up an entire library of fixing up your blocks, even with multiple differences in the same block across multiple DWGs.

RenAttr
This command reads that file created above and continues to rename all attributes accordingly in the current drawing. It doesn't ask you for anything, since it assumes you've already setup the settings before. If you haven't it won't do anything. This is the command you'd add to your script.

[BILLYJOW]

Thanks irneb.
I routine is just amazing. It's exactly i was looking for.

Many Thanks for share.
Cheers mate!

[CEHill]

This is a very promising routine and I look forward to employing it here. Currently, I have two issues with this LISP routine and cannot use it.

ISSUE ONE
The filename is included in the Autoload statements in my ACADDOC.lsp. All other files appear to load as expected. As I am a newbie at LISP and as I now understand it from others, Autoload statements may be problematic with a LISP file that has various (sub)routines in it(?)
QUESTION ONE
What are my options in loading it?

ISSUE TWO
An error message is generated stating that the file is not in the support path. I stored this file along with other existing LISP files in one folder that is defined in the current AutoCAD support file path. The other LISP files run as expected.
QUESTION TWO
How do I get the routine to recognize the file path?

Your prompt attention is appreciated.

[irneb]

Glad it works for you. You're welcome.

You can load lisp files in many ways: https://www.google.co.za/search?q=lo...ient=firefox-a

Are you sure you didn't make a typing mistake? If the others load then it should at least find this one too, thus it should not error on "Could not find file".

[CEHill]

To followup with my (2) issue question, I commented out the autoload line in my ACADDOC.lsp file and instead used the APPLOAD command. This routine loaded and ran/works as designed.

Is there something inherently wrong in attempting to load this particular type of routine using the autoload statement?

Is there an alternate method to loade this routine i.e. inside an ACADDOC.lsp or other support file besides relying on the native APPLOAD command?

[irneb]

Could you post the autoload line you created? Maybe it's something incorrect? Otherwise you can simply change the autoload into a normal load.

[BILLYJOW]

Hi irneb,

Is it possible clear the name of the blocks in setting - Blocks Names?

Thank in advance

[irneb]

Hi irneb,

Is it possible clear the name of the blocks in setting - Blocks Names?

Thank in advance

Basically you just need to delete the file called RenAttrib.DAT located in your (getvar "RoamableRootPrefix"). Otherwise attached version - note it clears all settings at once. Else you can try and edit that file through NotePad (or even better in VLIDE). It's basically just a text file containing lisp-like lists starting with the block's name, then containing ("OLD-Tagname" "New-TagName") sublists for each block.

[irneb]

Or even better, I've added a button to remove selected blocks from the settings.