Why can I not find a block if it is a wblock

[Anonymous]

I am currently trying to pull information from all of a certain blocks
attributes so that I may input it in a database. Since this particular block
is the room name and number (I'm sure you can see were this is going), I
would like to get the attributes from each occurrence of this block in the
drawing. So here is the problem
If block.name = blockname then
end if
statement don't work. I can get it to display the blocks name in a message
box
msgbox (vbcr& block.name)
By using the if statement above if I change blockname to a block that was
created in the drawing it will work but not with one that is a wblock.
If you have any information on a fix, please help.
Thanks,
Travis

[Anonymous]

Travis,

You might double check your equality test:

If Ucase(ObjBlockref.name) = Ucase(strBlockName) then

End If

Cheers,
Kenneth Hutson
San Antonio, Texas


"Travis Williams" wrote in message
news:865DF470F035FA039C389AB5CDC0CC59@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> I am currently trying to pull information from all of a certain blocks
> attributes so that I may input it in a database. Since this particular
block
> is the room name and number (I'm sure you can see were this is going), I
> would like to get the attributes from each occurrence of this block in the
> drawing. So here is the problem
> If block.name = blockname then
> end if
> statement don't work. I can get it to display the blocks name in a message
> box
> msgbox (vbcr& block.name)
> By using the if statement above if I change blockname to a block that was
> created in the drawing it will work but not with one that is a wblock.
> If you have any information on a fix, please help.
> Thanks,
> Travis
>
>
>

[Anonymous]

On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 17:21:32 -0700, "Travis Williams"
wrote:

>msgbox (vbcr& block.name)
>By using the if statement above if I change blockname to a block that was
>created in the drawing it will work but not with one that is a wblock.

I don't think there is any entity which is called a wblock. Rather,
there is a command "wblock" that will create a external file (ie.a
DWG) containing the entities you select. It is important to realize
that this DWG file is essentially the same as any other autocad DWG
file.

Joe Dunfee

[farnaz]

Joe is right. A wblock is not in fact a block. It is like any other DWG file. So u should look up in the files for that one.
U can even open it as an independent drawing file.