Find and Replace

[mccurdyks]

Thanks for this.

[Mike Hardy-Brown]

Danny,
Thanks for this!!!
A'desk should make you a gaziiiilionaire for this and integrate it in the next release

I couldn't get it to work in RB9.0, but works like a dream now in RA2008 !!!!!!

[Danny Polkinhorn]

A'desk should make you a gaziiiilionaire for this and integrate it in the next release

Yes, to both! Although it was only a few lines of code, but thanks.

Autodesk, please feel free to implement this in the product. Really...

[CadWiz]

Danny,

Great tool, but I can't get it to work. Is it because I am using Revit Architecture 2008?
Thanks.

[CadWiz]

Danny,

Thanks again, I was able to get it to work now. Works great.

[patricks]

Anybody have trouble with this causing Revit to take a REALLY long time to boot up?

I've been starting up Revit by using a shortcut to a tiny file with just some text in a drafting view and nothing else. It has always made Revit boot up in 10 seconds or less. Now I just added this Find & Replace DLL and made the changes to the INI file, and now it's taking like 30 seconds to 2 minutes to boot up Revit when I click on the little "splash screen" file.

I also noticed that it doesn't seem to work if you're trying to replace text on anything other than the first line if you have hard returns in your text notes.

For example, I have in lots of places on my drawings the following note:

PEMB STRUCTURE
PAINTED

I have always done a hard return to get down to the second or subsequent lines in my text notes. Other people like to type all in one line and then pull the text box in, but I just never really liked doing it that way.

Anyway, I want to change the note to say:

PEMB STRUCTURE
FACTORY PRIMED

I don't want to find and replace just "painted" because I have that in other notes that I need to keep. So is there any way to find and replace things on subsequent lines of text notes that have a hard return in the note?

[Danny Polkinhorn]

Patrick,

Merely adding the file to the INI shouldn't affect Revit at all since the app isn't loaded until you click on the menu item. Did you try removing it from the INI to see if it's any faster again?

Does the command not work with subsequent lines of text or is it a feature request that you be able to specify which ones to replace? If you select the individual text note, then run the command, does it replace the text on the second line?

[michael.chan]

Just wonder if you have one for Revit 2008? and if it can be shared.

Thanks

[Danny Polkinhorn]

Yes, it's on the third page of this thread.

[winnwgomez]

Hi Danny

i tried to use the application, but even if I add it to the revit.ini file, it doesnt show up in tools. I tired replacing it with text from your ini file, but that was futile too. what could be wrong?

thanks and best Regards

winn