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Dear Civil Engineers I have a drawing of rebars for a concrete beam as follows: Example: 2x2T16(F.B.)/L=800 It consists: 1-position numbers inside circle. They are not typed them in above drawing. 2- number of rebars: 2x2=4 for two side of the beam 3-T: to show type of the rebar. Here all of them is one type and no need for this letter. 4- 16: size of the rebar, that is diameter of the rebar is 16 mm 5- (F.B.): show the location of the rebar. Here they are on to side face of the cross section. Others or top and bot and add for added 6- L: is the total length of the bar. Here it is 800 mm. All these numbers are typed by a draftsman and I should extract them manually into a table to produce list of rebars beam by beam, which is a tedious and time consuming job prone to mistakes. I think there must be an easy way by putting these figures into another property of the drawn lines (maybe attribute) and the table could be constructed automatically using a lisp or a cad command. So I want to learn this method and instruct the draftsman to put those figures in proper place for my future works. Second question: missing position numbers. Is there an easy way to populate these position numbers? I think there must be other techniques or software for making these drawings and extracting the rebar table, but at present I have no choice except using AutoCAd for drawing these beams and making the table. Will be happy to hear your experience and comments and new software for this purpose.