Blocks

I have different drawings and some of them are having the same blocks.

Does anybody know how to make a lisp that makes a text file containing all blocks contained in every drawing?

Newly thanks in advance.

The way I would attack this problem is to:

Write a lisp: to get a text file of what dwg name's are in the designated directory and then write a script file to open each file run your next lisp routine and then close out of that dwg and then open the next dwg and so on. You will need some Visual Lisp also to do this.

Then I would make a lisp routine that the script file runs from above to get all the blocks in the drawing and write a text file and save it as the dwg file name. With a little more visual lisp you could get it to go into excel.

This has the possibility of doing all your drawings at once.

You may want to change this thread to the lisp routine part - you will get more help there.

Just using AutoCAD, you can do this...

At the command line type in:

LOGFILEON

-Block

?

*

You may have to press enter a few times to get to the end of the listing.

When you get done, paste this in at the command line:

(startapp "notepad" (getvar "logfilename"))

This will open the log file in Notepad.

I didn't know that one

Thanks rkmcswain

One more note: the command ._LogFileOff will turn off the log file - it doesn't hurt anything to leave it on, except you'll get a log file for each drawing and you may want to delete them over time.

I thought the OP might benefit from a script since he mentions the word "drawings".

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What's wrong with using data extraction? It works on numerous drawings at once.

script

open dwg1 LOGFILEON -Block ? * logfileclose close N

open dwg2 LOGFILEON -Block ? * logfileclose close N

open dwg3 LOGFILEON -Block ? * logfileclose close N

Then you can open the log files and paste into one document.

It would be easier though to open drawings and write out the block list, using "A" append to file so only one results file. Or use a lisp (vba in excell / word) to join all the files together. Lots of different ways to do what you want.

My suggestion do the simplest that matches your pogramming ability and is it a one off, so spending programing time may not be justified do manually.