If you are like me you like to make your life easy. This is a great built-in tool to do just that. This handy little command will automate the extraction of title block information as one example. I needed to quickly put together a drawing list for a project that I was working. There was never a list created at beginning of the job. This is specially handy during a construction phase of a project to have to track drawing revisions. A side note is that for some odd reason the system does not like to process more than 50 drawings at a time.
To start simply type in the command EATTEXT and follow the steps below.
Step 1.
Create your data extraction file.
Step 2
Add drawings and populate the list.
Step 3
Select any attributes you want to pull information from (Like your border or revision blocks)
Step 4
Select the specific information you want to extract from the attributes selected in Step 3.
Step 5
Here you can preview your work and go back to make adjustments or proceed to the *.xls or *.cvs file creation.
Step 6
Assign your location to where the file will be saved and give it a name and you are done.
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