grasshopper Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 Gang, I'm in the Traffic Control Industry, I use auto CAD 208 to draft Traffic Control Plans, we create the streets and plans ourselves or e-files are given to us by the Contractors or the whatever agency has jurisdiction to the streets our customers work on, auto CAD is a really useful tool to do other things as well as drafting. what are other ways of using autoCAD for estimating? I know that you can get the total "area" and get linear footage, but I was thinking if there are other ways of using to get quantities? I'm thinking oif there was a way of finding out how many of a named block is in the file or something along those lines.... maybe something like how the "find" feature is used when you mispell a word or change a word you use commonly for a word that makes you sound smarter:lol:. Quote
chelsea1307 Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 bcount will count all of the blocks in a dwg, i believe you can make it just count a certain block. hope that helps Quote
grasshopper Posted June 23, 2009 Author Posted June 23, 2009 bcount will count all of the blocks in a dwg, i believe you can make it just count a certain block. hope that helps just tried it out, looks promising... do you know if there is a way or a procedure where I can type in the command "bcount" click on the block I need quantities of?, I use many different blocks on one drawing and many times they are repeated over. for cones as an example (you've all seen them right?), I use to take down the linear footage and just divide by what ever the guidelines are for that speed limit to get an approximate quantitiy, because of curves and what not the counts aren't too accurate... in this day and age, I need to get quantities as accurate as possible, a few dollars + / - can determine wether or not you get the job or get laid off. Quote
chelsea1307 Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 im sure if it cant be done with bcount alone, someone if you asked really nicely could write a lisp that would do it. Let me check and see if i can get bcount to do it for you Quote
chelsea1307 Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 when i run it, if i type bcount on the command line the press enter to select all, my command line shows the block name and how many are there, do you need more than that? Quote
grasshopper Posted June 23, 2009 Author Posted June 23, 2009 when i run it, if i type bcount on the command line the press enter to select all, my command line shows the block name and how many are there, do you need more than that? you're awesome... I feel like such an idiot, I hadn't expand my "COMMAND LINE" to show ALL the highlighted blocks quantites... works like a charm, thanks oodles:D Quote
Lee Mac Posted June 23, 2009 Posted June 23, 2009 If not, this may help you: http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=36273 Quote
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