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Replace texts with blocks of the same name - Txt2Ref.

With a simple freeware utility Txt2Ref you can replace selected texts in your DWG drawing by block references of the same name (or of a single block). So e.g. all occurrences of the text "LAMP" in the drawing are replaced by references of the block "Lamp". The replacement honors layers, rotation, scale and color of the "placeholder" texts.

Download the Txt2Ref application from Download, load it into AutoCAD with APPLOAD and start it by typing the TXT2REF command. Select the replaced texts, enter the scale ratio (text height to block scale) and optionally modify the name (text contents) vs. the block name as defined in the drawing (prefix, suffix, or a fixed name). The blocks of the given name must already exist in the DWG drawing.

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See also:
Tip 13337:	How to select blocks by attribute values? (SelByAttr)
Tip 13292:	Automatic label - number of blocks in the specified area of a DWG.
Tip 13221:	Attractor - snap multiple objects to existing points/vertices.
Tip 13006:	Calculated property descriptions (tobogan slide from floor to floor)
Tip 13000:	Labels of dimensional parameter values in dynamic blocks (parameters->attributes)

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