Topic: Beating a dead horse to death..............again

[Fish]

Salutations everyone, its been awhile since I've posted and would like to bend your ears for a moment.  In my grand scheme I was trying to switch our company over to 3D modeling.  We physically count all our pieces and parts right now but with 3D I was trying to implement attributes with the eattext command to generate a bom and in my trial runs it worked great.  Mind you, I made all our fasteners in 3D, spent alot of time researching yada yada yada.  Made a macro in Access to upload the bom from AutoCad.  Pulled specs for a new computer to handle 3D.  They loved it, thought it was great .  And now the rest of the story..............

No new computer was bought, at least to the specs I stated was needed for 3D.  Now they want me to try it with our crappy business computers................ah not gunta work!  Sour grapes....yep .

I do have a question believe it or not.  How about still using attributes in 2D with the eattext command?  What are you guys doing for any bom generation?

Thoughts, suggestions, thanks............

[David Hall]

It still works just like 3d, you just have to make all the 2d blocks to extract from

[CottageCGirl]

we use 2D and extract it, but use ATTEXT..is that the same...but different?  It works fine, we just edit it with "comma deleted format"  I know how to do that, but am not sure how it works or why we do it that way, I usually extract 500-900 blocks of info into a .txt file