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how to change the colour of text attributes in multiple blocks?

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 05:47:23 GMT

Normally when I want to change the colour of a text attribute I have two options:

double click on it to open the Enhanced Attribute Editor
change it inside the Block Editor environment

But let's say I have 50 instances of the same block in a drawing. Now I want to change the colour of 30 of them. Obviously I can't use Block Editor as it would change all the blocks. So I have to double click on every text attribute I want to change its colour, apply the change in the Enhanced Attribute Editor and then go for the next one in which case it'd take a looooooooooooong time. What can I do?

Re: how to change the colour of text attributes in multiple blocks?

imadHabash — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 10:34:25 GMT

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Re: how to change the colour of text attributes in multiple blocks?

Alfred.NESWADBA — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 17:58:15 GMT

Hi,

You might edit the block and assign the attribute the color = "byBlock", then run comman _ATTSYNC.

Then change the layer of the block-insertions to a blue layer for group one and to a red layer for group 2 to get the attribute shown in blue or red.

But I know that this could not fit to your other colors in your workflow.

- alfred -

Re: how to change the colour of text attributes in multiple blocks?

3wood — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 21:27:05 GMT

Just change the attribute color to "BYBLOCK" in the block editor, keep the color of rest entities as "BYLAYER", then use BATTMAN to synchronize all blocks.

Now you can change individual block to a different color and its attribute will follow block's color.

Example:

Re: how to change the colour of text attributes in multiple blocks?

rosalina.deorduna — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 13:33:26 GMT

This is very helpful!!! Thank you very much!

Re: how to change the colour of text attributes in multiple blocks?

noorullahm — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 13:20:29 GMT

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Re: how to change the colour of text attributes in multiple blocks?

sbishopC668M — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 01:03:25 GMT

well.. thank you very much! Forgot about the BATTMAN! Oh, btm.. And thanx for the laugh on the text you selected for the ex.

Re: how to change the colour of text attributes in multiple blocks?

gwcoh — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:42:25 GMT

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