Multiple Block Renaming

I have recently imported data from a Total Station surveying package. There are 800 points and the package imports these as blocks, which is all Fab and Groovy, except that each block has the same name, as you would expect.

What I need to do is rename each block individually, that is, block 1 will be named block 1, next one, named block 2 etc all the way to 800.

Is there a lisp that can rename all the blocks in this way?. I could do them individually but obviously life is too short.

Why would you want to rename each block? Does each block (i.e. point/object) not have a point number/other identifier encoded into/attached to it?

Are you importing these straight into AutoCad or into a survey package (if so, which one)?

What i need is to be able to use the EATTEXT command to extract the X and Y co-ords and put them into a sheet elsewhere but will that will only work if they are individually named. I did try to use the function but although the command counted the number of instances of the block, it would not give me the info I need for each block. Can you think of another way I could get the info for each of the 800 points to paste into a spreadsheet, it would be gratefully received. thanks heaps

What i need is to extract the X and Y co-ords and put them into a sheet elsewhere but will that will only work if they are individually named. Can you think of another way I could get the info for each of the 800 points to paste into a spreadsheet, it would be gratefully received. thanks heaps (I am using AutoCAD at the mo')

Personally, I would start at the other end, and see if the Total Station would give a text output of the data.

Unfortunately it needs to be in AutoCAD so that the "real world" co-ords can be used, (the GEOsite software is very limited in this) I did think of using the field book data and copying that but the blocks/points really need to be brought into a drawing for it to be correct.

AH HAH...I've done it, the EATTEXT function worked after all, (after a bit of fiddling) it didn't like an altered UCS, but once sorted it worked fine

Thanks all, its good to bounce things about

Cheers

This from GeoSite web site

Communicator

For the site engineer, who needs to be able to efficiently upload and download data to their Nikon/Trimble instrument. Capable of reading DXF/DWG and CSV files from an external source and uploading a selected data set to the instrument. Following a completed survey, data can be downloaded for export as a CSV co-ordinate listing or simple DWG/DXF file.

You can get a text data file.

Thanks for the help, I'll keep this info for next time.

cheers