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M-dub:
I'm not sure if this is possible... easy.

I want to find all drawings that contain a block (any block) with multiple attributes matching certain criteria.

These are instrument bubbles, so for example, I want to find all drawings with "LIC" in one attribute and "3643" in another.  The block names may not be the same, nor would the attribute tags.

Lee Mac:
This would certainly be achieveable using ObjectDBX; you could iterate over the drawing database for a number of drawings, and return a list of drawing names which meet a certain criteria - in this case, those which contain blocks with a specific attribute value.

This may even be possible using my existing ObjectDBX Wrapper, (found here).

Lee

M@yhem:
Maybe use DATAEXTRACTION??  I would create a list of all selected blocks and their attribute values.  You can sort by the attribute value and export to Excel.  Might a quick and dirty way of getting what you need (OOC).

ronjonp:
You could feed something like this to the document object .. returns T or nil.


--- Code: ---(defun _foo (string1 string2 doc / out)
  (vlax-for a (vla-get-blocks doc)
    (vlax-for b a
      (if (and (vlax-property-available-p b 'hasattributes) (minusp (vlax-get b 'hasattributes)))
(setq out (cons (mapcar '(lambda (x) (strcase (vla-get-textstring x)))
(vlax-invoke b 'getattributes)
)
out
  )
)
      )
    )
  )
  (vl-some '(lambda (x) (and (vl-position (strcase string1) x) (vl-position (strcase string2) x)))
   out
  )
)
(_foo "LIC" "3643" (vla-get-activedocument (vlax-get-acad-object)))
--- End code ---

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