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willems 
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Joined: 27.Aug.2008 Status: Offline Points: 3 |
 Topic: XY-CoordinatesPosted: 27.Aug.2008 at 15:14 |
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Hello,
I've got the following question for Autocad 2007 users:
I've a drawing in Autocad 2007 with all kind of blocks on it. If you click on a block, and you click your right-mouse-button and go to properties, then it will display the x-y coordinates of that particular block, along with other information. Now my question is: is it possible to automatically generate a list of all this coordinates of all blocks in my drawing, together with the block name and a attribute, in my case called blockcode? Cause there are about 100 blocks and it is very time-consuming to do it by hand. Is it also possible to generate this list in excel?
Thanks!
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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: 27.Aug.2008 at 16:14 |
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Yes, you can use the AutoCAD commands ATTEXT, EATTEXT or DATAEXTRACTION (see AutoCAD commands). For bidirectional links (controlling coordinates and attributes from Excel) you can use Excellink.
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Vladimir Michl (moderator)
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willems
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Joined: 27.Aug.2008 Status: Offline Points: 3 |
Posted: 27.Aug.2008 at 19:57 |
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Thanks for your info! Nevertheless, I tried it but I didn't get the result that I wanted cause I'm something doing wrong. Can you please tell me step-by-step what to do with the commands in more details? Thank you very much for your help!
Greets Edited by willems - 27.Aug.2008 at 19:58 |
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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: 27.Aug.2008 at 21:34 |
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See the Tip 6289 and Tip 4865.
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Vladimir Michl (moderator)
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willems
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Joined: 27.Aug.2008 Status: Offline Points: 3 |
Posted: 29.Sep.2008 at 16:15 |
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I tried it this way and I came up with an table of the coordinates in autocad and excel. Unfortunally, the coordinates in excel and autocad-table didn't match the coordinates that Autocad gives in the block of a selected point. How is this possible and how can I cope with this? Thanks!
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saverio
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Joined: 21.Oct.2008 Location: Italy Using: AutoCAD All versions Status: Offline Points: 5 |
Posted: 21.Oct.2008 at 02:36 |
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you could also use ImportPoints for AutoCAD (it's a freeware, so it's not perfect, but works well generating blocks and attributes from dbf, csv, txt, xls, odbc...)
You can download this AutoCAD addon for free here in abc autocad |
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L.R.D.
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Joined: 28.Oct.2008 Location: Bulgaria Status: Offline Points: 8 |
Posted: 28.Oct.2008 at 16:46 |
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Hi,
you can use Acad 'eattext' command (or from menu tools/attribute extraction). Ussing this you can get a lot of information about any blocks and attributes in the drawing(and more). You have to mark the information you need and you'll get a 'csv' file with the requred information.
Please try it, and if any questions appears please ask me again.
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