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Title: Edit Attribute Definition??
Post by: craigr on April 01, 2009, 08:50:43 AM

I am having to do something new to us that I am sure most of you deal with every day.

We were given a outisde company's Titleblock to use for a set of dwgs. I need to fill in the 'Scale' area. What is there now is 'XX'. If I double click on it to edit it, a window comes up labeled 'Edit Attribute Definition'. It won't let me put my scale in the 'Tag:' area, When I enter the scale in the 'Prompt:' or 'Default:' areas and hit 'OK', nothing changes, it stays 'XX'.

So obviously I am doing it wrong. Would someone please explain how I change this to my scale?

craigr

Title: Re: Edit Attribute Definition??
Post by: Rob... on April 01, 2009, 08:55:37 AM

Make the attribute into a block and you will be able to edit it with a double click.

Title: Re: Edit Attribute Definition??
Post by: craigr on April 01, 2009, 09:02:21 AM

That worked for me.

I was ready to just erase the darn thing and use plain ole text.

One of these days, I will have to learn about those things.

Thanks

Title: Re: Edit Attribute Definition??
Post by: Daniel J. Ellis on April 02, 2009, 03:32:26 AM

Doesn't exploding an attribute turn it into text?

I remember back on R14 struggling for ages to figure out why all the text label ("LE" on a light, for example) weren't printing, before discovering they were exploded blocks with attributes and loose attributes didn't print back then...

dJE

Title: Re: Edit Attribute Definition??
Post by: M-dub on April 02, 2009, 07:34:43 AM

Quote from: danellis on April 02, 2009, 03:32:26 AM

Doesn't exploding an attribute turn it into text?

The BURST command will do that, but EXPLODE won't.  When you explode an attributed block, you will see the 'raw' attribute definition / tag.

Title: Re: Edit Attribute Definition??
Post by: Daniel J. Ellis on April 02, 2009, 08:09:48 AM

I knew that when one explodes a block attributes become attribute definitions.

I thought that exploding an attribute definition turned it into text though.

dJE

Title: Re: Edit Attribute Definition??
Post by: M-dub on April 02, 2009, 08:16:34 AM

Not that I'm aware of...

Title: Re: Edit Attribute Definition??
Post by: Kate M on April 02, 2009, 01:35:14 PM

Quote from: danellis on April 02, 2009, 08:09:48 AM

I knew that when one explodes a block attributes become attribute definitions.

I thought that exploding an attribute definition turned it into text though.

dJE

No, but using the Express Tool BURST on a block will convert its attributes to text. (Doesn't work if the block is already exploded.)

Title: Re: Edit Attribute Definition??
Post by: M-dub on April 02, 2009, 01:42:29 PM

Oh yeah... forgot to mention that you have to have Express Tools for the Burst command...