Attributes

[Nobull84]

I am a little new to assigning attributes. My company had a block with two attibutes that I need to alter. When the block is inserted, it asks a quantity. The other attribute is titled location. I am told if needed, all these quantities can be totaled per drawing. It has a title of "location". Two things: Can someone explain how to replicate this action? And is there a way to show all properties of a field for an attribute?

 

Thanks,

Nobull

[MSasu]

So, your goal is to summate the values that were inputted in Quantity attribute in all blocks from current drawing? May want to check the DATAEXTRACTION command - it will give you a report that may be later edited in Excel (or other worksheet tool, for that matter) to get the sum.

 

And is there a way to show all properties of a field for an attribute?

Can you detail what are those said properties?

[Nobull84]

The property is a stud callout along a steel beam.

 

I did a test with a smaller drawing and that does appear to do what we need (I think). The new block I had made wasn't quite what the original was like but I suppose the true test will be when we need to count these attributes in a larger job (not too often that happens). Thanks for the command. I think this does the same as what my supervisor had setup just in a different way. Learn something new everyday!

 

Thanks again,

Nobull