search texts in several dwg simultaneously...

[leonucadomi]

I would like to know if this is possible and how?

 

I appreciate any comments

[SLW210]

Try DwgSearch | AutoCAD | Autodesk App Store

[wkplan]

Use ODBX, open your dwgs one by one, save results in a list and close searched dgws.

Store the results in al list, note name and path.

No need for a third-party-tool.

[Steven P]

2 minutes ago, wkplan said:

Use ODBX, open your dwgs one by one, save results in a list and close searched dgws.

Store the results in al list, note name and path.

No need for a third-party-tool.

 

I reckon most LISPs and automation could be seen as a third party tool....

[SLW210]

Isn't Object DBX a "third party tool"?

 

Plus, you actually didn't detail how to do this method.

[Steven P]

Yes it is possible as SLW210 but also via LISPs

 

For LISP you'll want to use a batch LISP routine - something like ScriptPro or Lee Macs Script writer to assess each drawing. These will run a LISP to search text strings, so now all you need is that....

 

If you are using a script you want minimum user interface, anything without a dialogue box, I think this is the basis of what I use:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/find-and-replace-text/td-p/5649883

(I refer to it in my LISP find and replace). Modified to record what it finds into a text file.

 

 

Is it normal text you are searching for? If the text will be for example in a title block, again Lee Mac has a solution with his MacAtt tools, https://lee-mac.com/macatt.html

[wkplan]

6 hours ago, SLW210 said:

Isn't Object DBX a "third party tool"?

- ODBX is provived by autodesk

 

Plus, you actually didn't detail how to do this method.

- search this forum, there are plenty of examples

 

Edited July 25 by wkplan

[leonucadomi]

18 hours ago, SLW210 said:

Try DwgSearch | AutoCAD | Autodesk App Store

I use the 2013 version of autocad and I think it is not compatible  

[leonucadomi]

what I want is not to replace texts.

I am looking to open several dwg.

then search for a text string in the open dwg.

I would like the tool to tell me in which dwg the text I am looking for is in.

 

try to install  DwgSearch | AutoCAD | Autodesk App Store

 

I use the 2013 version Autocad  

and I couldn't install

 

 

 

[leonucadomi]

an apology, I already saw that what I need is done 

Batch Find & Replace Text by Master LEE

 thanks