Calculating number of a certain block in a 2D plan

[anwarad0l]

Dear sir

   I am electrical engineer and I have little experience with autocad .  How can I calculate the number of  acertain block in a 2D plan , such as the number of electrical socket in abig plan  with autocad 2010

[pendean]

QSELECT or FILTER commands, explore them in HELP: post back if you get stuck.

[David_Knight]

qselect works as long as those blocks are not within other blocks.

just pointing it out so he knows the limitations of qselect.

unsure of filter, as i have not used it much. but my guess would be it would have the same limitation.

Bcount will count //some// blocks in your drawing. it's pretty flakey, but built into autocad.  doesnt count dynamic blocks.

you might need some sort of block counting lisp routine like one of these:

http://www.lee-mac.com/dynamicblockcounter.html

or

http://www.lee-mac.com/nestedblockcounter.html