Edit block text without exploding

[3smees23]

Hi,

 

I create schematics of lighting control systems for my job, the controllers on my schematic have multiple outputs which I need to modify so they're relevant to the job.

 

At present I have all my blocks in a tool palette and just click and drop to add them to my schematic.

 

How can I tailor the text of a block without exploding it? Is this even possible?

 

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Sam

[Tharwat]

Do you mean other ways than bedit command ?

 

or double click on the block to open the block editor .

 

Hope this helps

[3smees23]

Hi,

 

Yeah, I don't want to use bedit and/or change the block itself.

 

Are there any other ways?

 

Cheers

[Dana W]

Merely editing an existing block would change EVERY block with the same name in the drawing at once. Once you have the block editor dialog open, you want to add an atribute to the block that would allow changing the text upon insertion. That way each occurance of the same block would be able to contain a different text value.

[Dana W]

  3smees23 said:

Hi,

 

Yeah, I don't want to use bedit and/or change the block itself.

 

Are there any other ways?

 

Cheers

 

You at least have to open the block in the editor to add the attribute.

[Tharwat]

replace the needed texts to be changed to attributes and later on when you insert the block it would ask you for every attributes value .

[ReMark]

  3smees23 said:

Hi,

 

Yeah, I don't want to use bedit and/or change the block itself.

 

Are there any other ways?

 

Cheers

 

Unless you can come up with a way of doing it using a diesel macro I can't think of a way that a person could edit a block without opening it. There is no magic button in LT that will accomplish the task.

 

Can the text somehow be exported to Excel, edited, then imported back into the drawing?

[3smees23]

If I were to add an attribute in block editor, would it prompt me to change the text if I dragged it in from a palette...rather than inserting it as a block?

 

 

I'm not sure if exporting to excel would be straight forward, the shematics could contain perhaps 30 blocks that need approx 10 lines of text changed each.

 

Thanks for all your input

[3smees23]

If I were to add an attribute in block editor, would it prompt me to change the text if I dragged it in from a palette...rather than inserting it as a block?

[ReMark]

Why don't you test it out and tell us.

[Ian Lapper]

An option you have is, once the block is placed, use the 'find/replace' text option from the Annotation tab in the Ribbon.  Set the 'Find Where' option to current space and use the 'Select Object' icon.   When prompted to replace the text in the block, select the option 'This Block Only'

Ian 

[CyberAngel]

Welcome to the forum!

 

Thank you for providing a solution to the OP's issue. It may help someone in the future.