Replace Title Blocks

[zoomharis]

If you have Express Tools installed, BLOCKREPLACE is an excellent command to replace selected blocks with another one. But when you try to replace a title block with another one of different size (eg:- A1 with A0) it gives little headache by misplacing the attributes. But you can easily move your title block attribute values from one to other using ATTOUT and ATTIN commands. Note that both commands belong to Express Tools.

Suppose we have a A1 title block named 'TB-A1' in your drawing. To replace it with an A2 title block with name 'TB-A2' , just follow the steps below.

1. Rename your existing title block name to new title block name you wish to bring in using RENAME command. (Here we rename 'TB-A1' to 'TB-A2')

2. Use ATTOUT command to export title block attribute values to a text file.

3. Delete the existing title block and purge it.

4. Insert New title block ( 'TB-A2')

5. Use ATTIN command to bring back the attribute values from the text file.

Now you have all your previous title block information updated in your new title block. It's important that the title blocks should have similar attribute tags in order to acheive this. But normally title blocks differs only in the size. So it should work fine with them.

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