Attribute Tags

[RobertAitken]

Hi All.

I'm updated a couple of thousand drawings. I have my VBA mascros working great. They do exactly as they say on the tin so to speak.

The only problem I'm having is this. The company that created the drawings used the same attribute definition in two places. I can extract the information but when I go to put it back the program looks at the tagnumber as inserts the text. The text it inserts is the first text is came across so I get the wrong information in one of the attributes.

Does anyone (Ed) have any ideas how I can get the correct info in the titleblock?

Many Thanks

Robert

[RobertB]

You are stuck unless you can be positive that the attribute order is always correct in those thousands of drawings.

If you think that you can get away with that assumption (I wouldn't) your only choice is to check the index of the duplicated tagname.

Personally, I would correct the duplicate tag issue while processing the thousands of drawings. Otherwise the duplicated tagnames will haunt these drawings.

[dgorsman]

You are stuck unless you can be positive that the attribute order is always correct in those thousands of drawings.

If you think that you can get away with that assumption (I wouldn't) your only choice is to check the index of the duplicated tagname.

Personally, I would correct the duplicate tag issue while processing the thousands of drawings. Otherwise the duplicated tagnames will haunt these drawings.

You could also check the attributes' position relative to the block; assuming the two aren't overlapping they should have different coordinate values. But the option to fix the attributes would also be my first choice.

[RobertAitken]

Thanks Guys.

I ended up changing the attributes on the new block and amending from there.

Thanks Again.

PS Robert, you still running ACADX or had that fell by the side?

[RobertB]

PS Robert, you still running ACADX or had that fell by the side?

AcadX.com withered away due to the 3 of us getting too busy with our real jobs.

[thomas.stright]

AcadX.com withered away due to the 3 of us getting too busy with our real jobs.

It's a pain with little things get in the way.....