I have a load of drawings that i'd like to extract some text info from i.e. project name / number, revision etc etc.
 
as far as im aware, all the drawing title blocks are block references and all have the required text attributes stored within.
 
How would one go about extracting this info?
 
Ta

You could try using the Data Extraction Wizard.
 
What version of AutoCAD are you running?

currently using 2010

AutoCAD 2010.  OK.
 
On the Ribbon:
 
Insert tab >  Linking & Extraction panel >  Extract Data
 
Command line: dataextraction

are you trying to make drawing list? best tool to do that is by implementing sheet set.

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