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    Default Rename blocks in property palette

    Summary: I'd like that Autocad could be able to rename a block in the properties palette.

    Description: Select a block and change its name in the property palette, as the same as you can change the content in a text.

    Product and Feature: AutoCAD - Property Palette

    Submitted By: carlos ortega on 08/27/2013


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    Default Re: Rename blocks in property palette

    unlikely -- the name belongs to the block definition stored in the drawing tables. what you are selecting when you pick on screen is a block instance - essentially a placeholder entity that tells autocad to look at the block definition for the composition and properties of the block.

    renaming the block is going to rename _all_ instances of the block. When that's what one wants to do, the REName command is built to do that.

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    Default Re: Rename blocks in property palette

    cadtag is correct - the Properties palette only displays the properties of the entity(s) selected (i.e., a BlockReference in this case), and not the BlockTableRecord (i.e., BlockDefinition).

    The RENAME Command is good for a lot of things, but can be quite cumbersome to navigate a drawing of even moderate complexity, and the lack of wildcard support (WCMATCH) in the -RENAME Command doesn't help.



    That is what motivated me to develop a Right Click Rename app to simplify the renaming of entity-specific properties, etc.

    For example, if I want to rename a Block, I simply select the target Block on screen graphically, Right Click, and Select the allowed property from the context menu (properties not allowed to be renamed, are grayed out):



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