Link a field to an area of a drawing

[jonathan.a.pitt]

Hi all

Quick question, is it possible to assign an area of a drawing a code, say C001 for example. Then if any block is placed within this area a field within the block displays or is linked to this code?

Cheers

Jonathan.

[rkmcswain]

Hi all

Quick question, is it possible to assign an area of a drawing a code, say C001

Yes. Create a named view.

Then if any block is placed within this area a field within the block displays or is linked to this code?

Not that I know of, at least not without a 3rd party routine.

[Jmurphy]

Not that I know of, at least not without a 3rd party routine.

BTDT got the headache from coding it.

It's not that hard to do really you just break the dwg area down into smaller areas then as an object is inserted you trigger another routine to get the IP and do the math. Example if the X is between 100 -200 you return A if Y is between 100 and 200 return 1 and so on. Once you got the A&1 you string it together and populate the attribute or in my case it was an MAP Object Data Table. My head ache came from not having nice round numbers to work with in the small area and the original dwgs were based off the 7.5 quad maps that were not square.

[jonathan.a.pitt]

Hmm, ok, cheers guys.

I'm working on ship layouts so the areas are a bit like yours Murph, a large quantity of various shapes and sizes.

At the moment I have a room identification block, so any new block can be linked to that for information, just trying to think of ways that can reduce my time and possible errors.