Renumbering Text

[neilcheshire]

Hi I have just been through all the posts looking afor a solution to my problem with LT (2006) but cannot seem to find a definitive answer.

I have come across Mike Perry's thread which gave me the following macro

'*^C^C_.Change;\;;;;;;$M=$(getvar,USERI1);_.Setvar;USERI1;$(+,1 ,$(getvar,USERI1))'

but this did not seem to work, I havee to admit at this point I just assumed that this would renumber text in the drawing (paper space).

Basically I want to renumber randomly positioned detail balloons with Mtext within the balloons. These are basically one balloon with a number in it copied to various locations on the drawings and then the numbers have to be changed manually to create a set of numbers increasing incrementally in the correct sequence i.e. 1,2,3,4 etc

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards

Neil Cheshire

[jaberwok]

Hi I have just been through all the posts looking afor a solution to my problem with LT (2006) but cannot seem to find a definitive answer.

I have come across Mike Perry's thread which gave me the following macro

'*^C^C_.Change;\;;;;;;$M=$(getvar,USERI1);_.Setvar;USERI1;$(+,1 ,$(getvar,USERI1))'

but this did not seem to work, I havee to admit at this point I just assumed that this would renumber text in the drawing (paper space).

Basically I want to renumber randomly positioned detail balloons with Mtext within the balloons. These are basically one balloon with a number in it copied to various locations on the drawings and then the numbers have to be changed manually to create a set of numbers increasing incrementally in the correct sequence i.e. 1,2,3,4 etc

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards

Neil Cheshire

Note the space after the "1". I think it should be removed.

[neilcheshire]

Thanks John

I removed the space but no joy. It does not seem to pick up any of the text. i.e. it does not highlight the text entity.

Could it be anything to do with the fact I am using mtext.

Regards

Neil

[jaberwok]

Ah, yes. CHANGE does not work (in that way) on mtext objects.
You might be able to use DDEDIT in it's place and it will not require all those semi-colons.

[neilcheshire]

Thanks Sounds good. Only one problem, not very good at writing macro's.

Can you or anyone help with changing this macro so suit??

Regards
Neil

[jaberwok]

Does the text need to remain as Mtext or could it be exploded to Text?

[neilcheshire]

HI

Not sure it will only remain as a number in the balloon, so I rather gather it does not matter.

If the drawing is updated and I need to add further detail balloons will changing the text stop me updating in the future?

I have attached a pdf file to show you how the drawing works, all graphical objects are in model space whereas the balloons and leaders are in paper space.

Hope this helps.

Many thanks for your help.

Neil

[jaberwok]

I'm trying but it's years since I last did this.

Anyone else feel free to jump in.

[jaberwok]

Okay - this works on a button -

*^c^cexplode;\;;change;l;;;;;;;$M=$(getvar,useri1);setvar;useri1;$(+,1,$(getvar,useri1))

It selects one mtext object, explodes it to text and changes the number to the current value of "useri1", increments "useri1" and continues until you press ESCape.
First you need to set your starting value with

setvar;usrei1;N - where N is the start value.
or enter at the command line with spaces in place of the semi-colons.

There are 5 variables available useri1 to useri5 - so you could have buttons to set different start values.

edit - the second column was a copy of the first column before running.

[neilcheshire]

Thanks John

That makes life a lot easier.

Many thanks for your help.

Regards

Neil.

PS is there a good bool I can get re autocad and programming macros etc