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How to replace texts in many AutoCAD drawings? (regular expressions)

To search and replace substrings or complete texts in an AutoCAD drawing, including an option to use scripts and replace texts (and dimtexts and attribute texts) in many DWG files at once, you can use the free/trial CADstudio's utility - srxTEXT. For search and replace you can also use regular expressions and perform even complex text replacements of the type:

D19-457-03667 --> Part:457/03667 Code:D19

or add strings to the beginning or to the end of your texts or individual words, or replace only a single/first occurrence of a substring, etc.

You can also use scripts to replace texts in multiple drawings (batch mode). Replace strings defined by search-replace pairs loaded from an Excel table (CSV file; the srxTextCSV command).

This utility can be downloaded from www.cadstudio.cz/download, see also www.cadstudio.cz/developuk.

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applies to: AutoCAD 2009 · AutoCAD 2007 · AutoCAD 2004 · AutoCAD 2002 · AutoCAD Architecture · AutoCAD Map · Mechanical Desktop ·

See also:
Tip 9265:	RENAME on steroids - complex renaming of AutoCAD objects.
Tip 7892:	How to find blocks with an empty (not-filled-in) attribute?
Tip 7890:	How to find missing numbers in a series of numbered blocks?
Tip 7673:	How to search/replace tabs in texts?
Tip 7241:	Searching text in DWG drawings (without AutoCAD).

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