Search various folders drawings for a named block

[goBurner]

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.

[CyberAngel]

Have you tried using the Design Center? See this article. About halfway down the page they discuss searching for blocks.

Edited October 27, 2022 by CyberAngel

[mhupp]

You could Use windows cmd.

 

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

 

--edit

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.

 

Edited October 27, 2022 by mhupp

[BIGAL]

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.

[mhupp]

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

Edited October 28, 2022 by mhupp