block counting

[Anonymous]

is there anyway to do a block count for multiple blocks in a drawing and cad give u a schedule listing the blocks out and a quanity of them.

say trees

like 5 different tree blocks put in a drawing who knows how many times. rather than "bcount" is there a way to select all of the blocks have it count them out and put them in a shedule catagorized?

or is this very wishful thinking...lol

thanks for any and all help!

[Anonymous]

If you are using AutoCad 2002, go to the TOOLS menu and select ATTRIBUTE
EXTRACTION. This launches a wizard which will do exactly what you want.

If you are using 2000, that tool is on the installation cd & it's called
something like ATTEXT.  You'll have to look for it.

For example, it will grab the attributes you tell it to and dump them into a
speadsheet and combine any duplicates.

If you're using a release before 2000, you may need a 3rd party tool.

Hope this helps.

[Anonymous]

Dotsoft.com - look for toolpac - has that and more - if you care to buy.
I think there's also a tutorial (from Adesk) that steps into that - but I
last used it in r12, so I'm no longer familiar.


cadd_monkey wrote in message
news:f15b37b.-1@WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
is there anyway to do a block count for multiple blocks in a drawing and cad
give u a schedule listing the blocks out and a quanity of them.
say trees
like 5 different tree blocks put in a drawing who knows how many times.
rather than "bcount" is there a way to select all of the blocks have it
count them out and put them in a shedule catagorized?
or is this very wishful thinking...lol
thanks for any and all help!

[Anonymous]

use the function : attribute extraction
i guess that is what you are looking for if i understand you correctly

[Anonymous]

I have a lisp routine called count that does this fast...does not
display attribute data.

Also a program called extractor which makes the data extraction much
easier.

Count;

; COUNT.LSP Copyright 1991 Tony Tanzillo All Rights Reserved.
; -----------------------------------------------------------------
;
; Adds the COUNT command to AutoCAD, which counts, itemizes, and
displays
; in tabular form, the number of insertions of each block in the
selected
; objects, or the entire drawing.
;
; Add to ACAD.LSP, or load with (load"count")
;
; First implemented in May of 1990.
;
; Revision history:
;
; 10/13/1991: General revisions for R11:
;
; 1. Now ignores anonymous blocks and Xrefs.
;
; 2. Added console/screen paging, pauses listing
; at each screen-full and waits for a keypress.
;
; Notes on console paging:
;
; 1. To disable console paging, add the following to COUNT.LSP:
;
; (setq *cpage-disable* t)
;
; 2. The number of physical console lines defaults to 25. This
; can be overridden by adding the following to COUNT.LSP
;
; (setq *console-lines* )
;
; Where is the integer number of physical screen lines.
;
; 3. The screen-clear function defaults to (textpage) under R11,
; and (textscr) under R10 (no screen-clearing is performed),
; but it can be redefined by assigning a function that is to
; be called to do a screen-clear to the symbol *clear-screen*.
;
; The following example can be used with R10 if ANSI.SYS or
; any compatible console-driver is installed, to clear the
; display on each screen-page:
;
; (defun *clear-screen* ()
; (textscr)
; (princ "\e[2J")
; nil
; )
;
; Program listing:

(defun C:COUNT ( / blocks ss)
(princ "\nPress to select entire drawing or,")
(cond
( (not (setq ss (cond ((ssget))
(t (ssget "x" '((0 . "INSERT")))))))
(princ "\nNo objects selected."))
(t (princ "\nCounting block insertions...")
( (lambda (i)
(repeat i (count_block (ssname ss (setq i (1- i))))))
(sslength ss))
(cond
( (not blocks)
(princ "\nNo block insertions found."))
(t (table-print blocks "Block" "Count" "-" 8 "." nil
'itoa)))))
(princ)
)

(defun table-print (alist title1 title2 headsub coltab padchr
car-form cdr-form / maxlen maxline padstr )
(setq car-form (cond (car-form) (t '(lambda (x) x)))
cdr-form (cond (cdr-form) (t '(lambda (x) x))))
(setq maxlen
(mapcar
'(lambda (pair)
(cons (strlen (car pair))
(strlen (cdr pair))))
(setq alist
(mapcar
'(lambda (pair)
(cons (apply car-form (list (car pair)))
(apply cdr-form (list (cdr pair)))))
alist ))))
(setq maxlen (+ -2 (apply 'max (mapcar 'car maxlen))
(apply 'max (mapcar 'cdr maxlen)))
maxline (+ maxlen coltab)
padstr (repl padchr 70))

(cprinc-init)
(cprinc (strcat title1 " "
(ctab (cons title1 title2)
maxline
(repl " " 70))
" " title2))
(cprinc (repl headsub (+ maxline 2)))
(mapcar
'(lambda (pair)
(cprinc (strcat (car pair) " "
(ctab pair maxline padstr) " "
(cdr pair))))
alist )
)

(defun repl (chr len / res)
(apply 'strcat (repeat len (setq res (cons chr res))))
)

(defun ctab (pair max padstr)
(substr padstr 1 (- max (strlen (car pair) (cdr pair))))
)

(defun cdr++ (key alist)
( (lambda (x)
(cond (x (subst (cons (car x) (1+ (cdr x))) x alist))
(t (cons (cons key 1) alist))))
(assoc key alist))
)

(defun get (k l) (cdr (assoc k l)))

(defun entgetf (k e)
( (lambda (l)
(mapcar '(lambda (x) (cdr (assoc x l))) k))
(entget e))
)

(defun count_block (ename)
(apply
'(lambda (etype name)
(cond
( (and (eq "INSERT" etype)
(or (assoc name blocks)
(zerop (logand 45 (get 70 (tblsearch "block"
name)))))
(setq blocks (cdr++ name blocks))))) nil)
(entgetf '(0 2) ename))
)

(defun cprinc-init ()
(setq *console-lines* (cond (*console-lines*) (t 25))
*cprinc-msg* (cond (*cprinc-msg*) (t "--- Press any key ---"))

*cprinc-rubout*
(cond ( (or textpage *clear-screen*) "")
(t (strcat "\r" (repl " " (strlen *cprinc-msg*)) "\r")))

*cprinc-line* -1)
(cond (textpage (textpage))
(*clear-screen* (*clear-screen*))
(t (textscr) (terpri)))
)

(defun cprinc-page ()
(princ *cprinc-msg*)
(grread)
(cond (textpage (textpage))
(*clear-screen* (*clear-screen*))
(t (textscr)))
(princ *cprinc-rubout*)
(setq *cprinc-line* 0)
)

(defun cprinc (s)
(cond ( *cpage-disable*)
( (not *cprinc-line*)
(cprinc-init))
( (eq (setq *cprinc-line* (1+ *cprinc-line*))
(1- *console-lines*))
(cprinc-page)))
(write-line s)
)

; ############################ eof COUNT.LSP
################################

(princ "\nC:COUNT loaded. Start command with COUNT. ")
(princ)


cadd_monkey wrote:

> is there anyway to do a block count for multiple blocks in a drawing
> and cad give u a schedule listing the blocks out and a quanity of
> them.
>
> say trees
>
> like 5 different tree blocks put in a drawing who knows how many
> times. rather than "bcount" is there a way to select all of the blocks
> have it count them out and put them in a shedule catagorized?
>
> or is this very wishful thinking...lol
>
> thanks for any and all help!