Object counting on CAD drawings

[Justhe1]

Hi all,

1st post and complete CAD newbie, so be gentle please..!

Although not a CAD operator myself (but am now starting to learn) as I am regularly involved in large projects which have many drawings with different layers showing various electrical services symbols (such as smoke detectors and the like) on them.

Rather than having to manually count these objects is there any way our CAD man (who doesn't know the answer to this question either :( ) can select the desired symbol, select an area on the drawing or the whole drawing itself and effectively get AutoCAD LT 2000 to "count" the number of those objects on that drawing...

Just wondered as I just had to manually tick off 12000 items over 27 drawings - and there MUST be a quicker/easier/less painfull way of acheiving this!!


Thanks in advance,

J

[Mr T]

Try to post this in the LISP forum, I'm sure FUCCARO will know how to do it. Personally I know ZILCH about lisps.

Or

Try

www.tenlinks.com or www.cadalyst.com

Nick

[Kate M]

LT doesn't support lisp...but if your symbols are made up of blocks (named groups of objects), you can use the Quick Select filter to find them. Let me know if you need more clarification. :-)