Topic: text style replacement

[Kerry]

Tim, nice code, you're very productive when you're bored...

An ignorant question, you have the acad object passed in as a variable. Does one ever not use the active document?

Thanks,

Dan

Sometimes, like with DBX or when reading from another db, you will need to pass 'that' doc reference.

[T.Willey]

Tim, nice code, you're very productive when you're bored...

An ignorant question, you have the acad object passed in as a variable. Does one ever not use the active document?

Thanks,

Dan

Sometimes, like with DBX or when reading from another db, you will need to pass 'that' doc reference.

Yup.  Thanks Kerry.

and Thanks Dan for the nice comment.  I just like the flexibility of it, since the way the code is written it could be called from, and used with, ObjectDBX.

[Andrea]

 

Tim....

Thank you !
The code work perfectly.

[T.Willey]

Tim....

Thank you !
The code work perfectly.

I'm glad Andrea.  I hope you can learn from it.  And You're Welcome.

[Andrea]

Tim....

Thank you !
The code work perfectly.

I'm glad Andrea.  I hope you can learn from it.  And You're Welcome.

I lurn each day Tim......but with you guys......I lurn more faster.. 

just a little thing...
the code works perfectly since I got a new drawing from client...
the..

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....     (if (not IsLo)
      (vla-put-Layer Obj "0")......section seem to work.....but even with regenall or

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(vla-Regen (vla-get-ActiveDocument (vlax-get-Acad-Object)) acActiveViewport)all blocks seem to not being refreshed...(<- is this a english word ?) 

[Kerry]

just a little thing...
the code works perfectly since I got a new drawing from client...
the..

Code: [Select]

....     (if (not IsLo)
      (vla-put-Layer Obj "0")......section seem to work.....but even with regenall or

Code: [Select]

(vla-Regen (vla-get-ActiveDocument (vlax-get-Acad-Object)) acActiveViewport)all blocks seem to not being refreshed...(<- is this a english word ?) 

What do you think Tims code should do to the blocks Andrea ?

[Joe Burke]

Hi all,...

first, best wishes for 2007..   

Is there any way to select all text and mtext in the entire drawing including in block, layout, and model space ?

I need to do this:
I have many diffrent text style and need to purge all them and keep only 1.
so I think i need to select all text by filtering them en change style.
But if you have any other idea....i'll keep it !

thanks.

Question aside, why write code given CAD Standards can do this?

I looked at Tim's code, though not in detail. I think it would not allow a text style to be purged if it is used in a dimension style.

IOM, code like Tim's is useful for examining a drawing. Tell me where this or these text styles are used, so I can decide beforehand whether it's safe to let CAD Standards do what it does.

[Andrea]

just a little thing...
the code works perfectly since I got a new drawing from client...
the..

Code: [Select]

....     (if (not IsLo)
      (vla-put-Layer Obj "0")......section seem to work.....but even with regenall or

Code: [Select]

(vla-Regen (vla-get-ActiveDocument (vlax-get-Acad-Object)) acActiveViewport)all blocks seem to not being refreshed...(<- is this a english word ?) 

What do you think Tims code should do to the blocks Andrea ?

Yes,..

[Andrea]

Hi all,...

first, best wishes for 2007..   

Is there any way to select all text and mtext in the entire drawing including in block, layout, and model space ?

I need to do this:
I have many diffrent text style and need to purge all them and keep only 1.
so I think i need to select all text by filtering them en change style.
But if you have any other idea....i'll keep it !

thanks.

Question aside, why write code given CAD Standards can do this?

I looked at Tim's code, though not in detail. I think it would not allow a text style to be purged if it is used in a dimension style.

IOM, code like Tim's is useful for examining a drawing. Tell me where this or these text styles are used, so I can decide beforehand whether it's safe to let CAD Standards do what it does.

some client have standard.....
one of these want only SIMPLEX style in drawings..in 5 specific layers, all block created to layer "0" etc....
but we receive some drawing from architect and diffrent other discipline who work with there standard.
so when we receive these drawing we always need to clean all textstyle and fonts before returning the drawing to the client.

To obtain in the drawing this final result of textstyle:

Standard and SIMPLEX

[Kerry]

......What do you think Tims code should do to the blocks Andrea ?

Yes,..

Lets try that again ...

When you read the code that Tim provided, what do you think it does to blocks ?

[Andrea]

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((vl-position tempObjType '("AcDbText" "AcDbMText" "AcDbAttributeDefinition"));;detect text TYPE
     (vla-put-StyleName Obj StyName);;put the new stylename
     (if (not IsLo);;if is not in same layout
      (vla-put-Layer Obj "0");;put the text item found to layer "0"
     )
do I'm right ?

[Kerry]

Forget posting  code and try to answer the question ..

When you read the code that Tim provided,
what do you think it does to blocks ?

[M-dub]

just a little thing...
the code works perfectly since I got a new drawing from client...
the..

Code: [Select]

....     (if (not IsLo)
      (vla-put-Layer Obj "0")......section seem to work.....but even with regenall or

Code: [Select]

(vla-Regen (vla-get-ActiveDocument (vlax-get-Acad-Object)) acActiveViewport)all blocks seem to not being refreshed...(<- is this a english word ?) 

What do you think Tims code should do to the blocks Andrea ?

Yes,..

Andrea,
Do you think you maybe misunderstood Kerry's question?  He's asking how the code should affect the blocks, not if it should affect the blocks.

just throwing a little hint out there

[Kerry]

Andrea,
Do you think you maybe misunderstood Kerry's question?  He's asking how the code should affect the blocks, not if it should affect the blocks.

just throwing a little hint out there

exactly !

I originally wrote something like

What does Tim's code do to the blocks.?

but I have been accused of being rude or blunt to Andrea in the past, so I changed it to :

What do you think Tims code should do to the blocks Andrea ?

[M-dub]

but I have been accused of being rude or blunt to Andrea in the past, so I changed it to :

Guilty as charged. 

My mistake and my apologies