Removing/Hiding Block Attributes

[Glen1980]

I've just been sent some layouts by our planning team and they have attributes stating the size and name of all the furniture.

 

How can I quickly hide or delete the attributes as for my purposes the text is irrelevant and gets in the way?

 

I have tried the BATTMAN command but it doesn't seem to let me delete all of the attributes I have to leave one on each block. Currently all of the attributes are on the same layer as the lines (layer 0.)

[dbroada]

depending on how many different blocks you have you can just delete the attribute in BEDIT and then ATTSYNC it. Works for a few but you will need LISP to do lots. Check Lee's site, he's bound to have something.

[Glen1980]

Ha! Dave, that is perfect! There are only about a dozen blocks on this drawing but the ATTSYNC bit works on all of them. I never really had any instruction on attributes and neither, apparently, has anyone else in the building. Whenever I've tried to mess with an attribute things I didn't expect to happen did, but attsync must have been what I was missing.

 

Thanks mate.

 

Glen

[dbroada]

yes, ATTSYNC is the magic command.

 

If you update blocks with attributes you only change future blocks, not those already in the drawing. The ATTSYNC command syncronises all blocks to the new definition. It is possible to do a lot of damage to a block by deleting attibutes and not attsyncing it - and there have been plenty of "help me" requests here to prove it.

[steven-g]

Another option would be turn the attributes to invisible, in the block editor.

[danellis]

The safest, both in terms of data-loss and future-proofing, bet would be to redefine the block so that the attributes are on their own layer. Ask your planning team to adopt these same blocks.

 

That would allow the planning team to keep the notes (they use them because they need them somewhere alon gthe line) but allow you to freeze the layer so it's not on your drawings.

 

Otherwise you'd have to go through the whole process of deleting the attributes everytime they send you revised drawings. Conversely if you ever had to return your drawings to the Planning team (I don't know what you do, but if you say moved a partition and returned the file to them to update your drawings they'd potentially have to restore all the attributes!).

 

It doesn't always work, but when different departments talk about their requirements a solution can usually be arrived at that not only works but saves time for everybody - there can be no harm in you at least suggesting/requesting such a simple change!!

 

dJE

[Glen1980]

Good Idea dJE.

 

I could also ask them to draw their blocks on layer 0 (I was wrong on my original post) instead of drawing on the furniture layer then importing onto layer 0 and picking a logical origin point!

 

I might make the blocks for them and put them on a tool palette for their convenience, then it may not seem so condescending

[Glen1980]

Steven

 

That would also work, I'll have a better look through the manager commands.

[Ski_Me]

Ask your planning team to adopt these same blocks.

 

Like their gonna listen to anything anybody has to say about how they do their job much less change. They're the planning team damnit! They plan we act.

[Glen1980]

Like their gonna listen to anything anybody has to say about how they do their job much less change. They're the planning team damnit! They plan we act.

 

True!