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multiple with same value is there an easy way?

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 01:12:03 GMT

I am a Autocad NOOB. I have been using it for a long time. just haven't really used any of the power under the hood.

I only use about 25 different blocks over the last 7 or 8 years. I am an electrical geek so the only thing that changes is the arrangement of the blocks.

I have tried to build a block that makes things a lot quicker. There is 17 Tags that all need the same value. I might use this same block 30 times in a drawing. The first block would be M1, the second M2, Third M3, etc,etc. Is ther a way to link tag values to 1 master tag in a block?

Please be patient with me I am just starting to explore the power of this software.

Re: multiple with same value is there an easy way?

3wood — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 11:34:41 GMT

Welcome to the AutoCAD community!

It is not hard with FIELD and INNB.

Example, a simple block with 2 attributes. The first attribute has been assigned value "M1". Our goal is another attribute has the same value as the first attribute and it will change to match the first attribute automatically.

Step 1, edit block attributes, select Field from the right-click shortcut menu.

Step 2, Settings as below and click the select object button as in the red circle.

Step 3, Pick up the first attribute as the object, not the rectangle.

Step 4, Select the Tag Name of the first attribute. It is "11" in this example.

As the result of Step 4, the second attribute has been filled in a field with the same value as the first attribute.

Step 5, use INNB to multiply block with the first attribute value changed in a ascending sequence.

Then use REGEN to show the final result as below:

Re: multiple with same value is there an easy way?

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:08:15 GMT

Thank you for your help.

This worked perfectly. I was tryin got do it in the Block editor and it wouldn't work. This is perfect.