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DRAW NUMBERED BOX AROUND AN ELECTRICAL SYMBOL
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sadhu 
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Joined: 15.Apr.2008 Location: Italy Using: Autocad LT 2013 Status: Offline Points: 11 |
 Topic: DRAW NUMBERED BOX AROUND AN ELECTRICAL SYMBOLPosted: 20.Oct.2009 at 12:01 |
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I need to draw a numbered box around an electrical symbol (switch , socket) on a house floor plan.
The electrical symbols have a part number attribute which must remain intact for extraction later. How it should work: - it should permit me to select the symbols that i want enclosed in a box - the box numbering should be progressive and automatic I have seen this funtion in software distributed by Bticino / Gewiss / ABB not to mention others. It should be possible also in Autocad. All help will be appreciated. Edited by sadhu - 20.Oct.2009 at 12:01 |
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Vladimir Michl
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Arkance Systems CZ Joined: 26.Jul.2007 Location: Czech Republic Using: Autodesk software Status: Offline Points: 2124 |
Posted: 20.Oct.2009 at 13:22 |
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If the symbols are roughly the same size, you can make a simple block with one attribute (a rectangle, insertion point in the center) and then repeatedly insert this block using the InsertC utility (see Download).
This utility behaves like normal INSERT but it autoincrements the text attribute on insertion of each block.
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