Is it possible to tag a polyline

[cadguy68]

Hi All,

I'm trying to find out if its possible to tag a polyline with specific info ie: cable type ect and also on extraction to obtain the polyline length for each cable type.

I've created all the block attributes that I need and the extraction process works great with these but I don't know how to extract the polyline information that's also required.

I'm running AutoCAD 2007/08 and using AutoCADs own extraction program.

Any advice would be most grateful.

Cadguy68

[chulse]

AutoCAD MAP has that ability (called Object Data), but I don't think it exists in vanilla autocad.

Don't know about the extraction, I'd be curious to know how to do that myself...:?

[cadguy68]

Hi Chulse,

Thanks for the help, we have a copy of AutoCAD MAP 2008 in the office somewhere will track it down and give it a try.

Many Thanks
Cadguy68

[chulse]

You can link tables (excel or others) to data also using a common key either in a block attribute or in object data. I use it to link Tree data based on tree tag numbers (as block attributes)

[fuccaro]

You can attach XDATA to an AutoCAD entity. In the old days we used Lisp to attach/extract those data. Today there is an Express tools doing that.

[chulse]

You can attach XDATA to an AutoCAD entity. In the old days we used Lisp to attach/extract those data. Today there is an Express tools doing that.

Thanks, good to know.
How about extraction? Including pline length...?

[fuccaro]

It sounds like a job for a programmer. Click this link: http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1437