find/search

[superdai]

Morning all,

My boss came in to this office this morning and was asking to find an "A" type fitting on a drawing which i could not see but found it when using the "Find" Command.

 

We are an electrical engineering company with a lot of work in schools and hospitals and as such we have large cluttered drawings with many different light fittings and sockets in.

 

im using the Find command to help with take-off but is there a better way? also the sockets and switches etc dont have any text just a small drawn symbols is there a way to find all of the occurences?

 

Thanks guys!

[ReMark]

Are the sockets, switches and light fittings blocks? If the answer is yes then take a look at Lee Mac's Block Count program.

 

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?48790-Upgraded-BCount

Edited November 18, 2010 by ReMark

[qball]

im using the Find command to help with take-off but is there a better way? also the sockets and switches etc dont have any text just a small drawn symbols is there a way to find all of the occurences?

 

How does the find command work if there is no text?

If they are blocks you can use Qselect, Block, Name. Command line will tell you how many selected, or the properties box.

Or if it's text you can still use Qselect.

[edwinprakoso]

You can use data extraction for blocks too. I'm not sure with text, but I think you can use it.

If they're not block and not text, then I don't know

Here is a sample of extraction block. And this one for reporting line details.

[BIGAL]

I would be supprised if all your sockets and light switches did not have a number on them in our office here every socket has a number, you would have a block for a type of socket and an attribute for its number and maybe room ? They may not be visible check block settings.

 

If you work this way then data extraction should be easy.