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I'm looking for a way through a lisp routine to search various folders drawings (.dwg files) for a specific block name.

The result in an excel list of the found dwg files where the specific block is located.

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You could Use windows cmd.

 

dir/s/b filename.dwg > File.txt

 

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Go to the folder in question in windows explorer. in the address bar type cmd

this will pop up a dos window and paste above into it.

 

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We had like 4tb of dwg's if we decided to look for a block I am wondering how long it would take.

 

Mhupp that makes a list of dwgs wants to find a block in a list of dwg's, thanks always go to CMD,  CD etc etc to do that task.

 

Maybe use Accoreconsole (tblsearch "BLOCK" bname) if true write-line to a file note use "A" option to append to file. Not tested. Will try to find time to test.

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32 minutes ago, BIGAL said:

We had like 4tb of dwg's if we decided to look for a block I am wondering how long it would take.

 

I imported our list into excel using vlookups takes a few seconds to search a list with almost 250k rows

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