Reving it up

[felt33]

This may sound stupid, but can anyone tell me how to get my revision level to update in all instances of an attributed title block. I've tried attsync to no avail.

[Anonymous]

is it an xreffed block ?

if so, that works like a nesting level and can interfere with attribute/field updating.

when i xref a titleblock, i make sure it is not a block to begin with.

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This may sound stupid, but can anyone tell me how to get my revision level to update in all instances of an attributed title block.
I've tried attsync to no avail.

[felt33]

Thanks for the response Doug. No, it's not an xref. It's just a plain old attributed block. I'd love to post it but I don't think I'm allowed to.

[dabruce]

if you use just one rev block then "GATTE" will update the attributes accross layouts..

The problem will come if you use the same block for every revision for example is use the same block for Rev A as I do for Rev B and I also like to keep the various revision blocks on the drawing.

Gatter would update the field "REV" accross all of the blocks not just those specifically for Rev A or Rev B. you could rename the blocks REv A block Rev B block etc. but this is a long winded way of doing it.

This is the only way I know of that will update all instances of a block.

[Modman_4]

Have you thought instead of going into your drawing properties and, on the custom tab, creating one with a Name of ReviewStatus or some such thing, and a value of Preliminary, or Revision 1 etc? Then you could create a piece of MText and in it put a field that "calls" that value. Then, when you go back into your Drawing Properties and change that value, a regen will update all copies of that piece of MText throughout your drawing.

[felt33]

would this be under the "custom properties" in the help menu? I only just started working with them and I don't have a full knowledge of their workings yet.

[Anonymous]

File menu (though if you 2009 or 10 version who knows where they are now)

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would this be under the "custom properties" in the help menu? I only just
started working with them and I don't have a full knowledge of their
workings yet.

[jcourtne]

I solve this problem with lisp. If you search those forurms you can proably find code to change block attributes.
The great thing about lisp is you can run a script on multiple drawings that calls your lisp function.
Therefore it would be possible to "RevUP" 1000 drawings in about 15min.