I figured the automation process would be lengthy to code, versus something that sees a certain block name in in the drawing and flags a message when it closes and or saves to a text file. More than likely I probably just jumped straight into the deep end... :kewl:
I guess our system might be too dependent on the operators...which it has been that way way before I got here, I'm just trying to make things more standard.
So you guys are thinking more along the lines of having it know the next number to to rename the hydrants to without repeating, and renaming the blocks automatically.
IE
Closing the drawing..
Prompt...Non-standard blocks located in drawing, do you wish to correct? Y or N
Y....
This is where it gets tricky. Our operators will place two-three as-builts within a drawing in model space. Each has a title block around the as-built, but the DWG name will be saved as BF-1,2,3.dwg. So you would not be able to use the file name to name the blocks. So something that would prompt the user to window over the as-built (selecting all of the objects) then prompts them to enter the as-built number. Then it will rename the items for them.
If it sees fire hydrants still named with the default names it will flag them
Do you wish to number the fire hydrants? Y or N
Then it will do so based off of a starting number defined by the user?
I might be rambling, sorry I'm just trying to think of ideas ....