can't copy/output results from a FIND list

[barry2104]

I do a search (FIND) for a text string in my .dwg and get 142 hits. These are not automatically sorted alphabetically - I find that for searches containing lots of hits, the alphabetically reorder function ceases to work. Any workarounds?

Also (main problem) is that AutoCAD won't let me COPY out the results from my search... I'd like to copy the hits from this list into a .txt or .xls file but CTRL+C won't work and there's no right-click options

 any help? Perhaps a lisp can do this for me? (should work on text, mtext, blocks, attributes, dimensions, etc...

[ВeekeeCZ]

FIND command let you create a selection set. That's all you need. You can use DATAEXTACTION or anything...

[barry2104]

I was hoping to avoid having to use dataextraction because the text I'm looking for is embedded into many (differently named/structured) Blocks as Attribute-text.

Is there no way to simply output / read out the text-values of such blocks as a list (other than via dataextract)?

[ВeekeeCZ]

Maybe try this Lee's routine... (I did not)
http://www.lee-mac.com/bfind.html

[barry2104]

this is a great lisp, but unfortunately does not seem to work for exactly my needs.

I wish to pre-select e.g. 50 text fields (from a total of 400) and have only these 50 output to excel.

If that BFIND Lisp could extend an extra drop-down option under "Options / where to search" to have also "selected objects" clickable, then it would suffice for my needs.

As a work around, I will have to copy these 50 text fields out of my plan, copy them into an empty drawing, and then run the lisp again.

...and will have to do this for each of the 13 groups of text...

works nicer than _dataextraction though!

[Anonymous]

use filter to find text value, and than convert that text in attribute definition using TXT2ATT.lisp. and than make it block and extract attribute in express tool in blocks. than u can save your all text data in text file.

remember to 'accept as solution' if this helped

[steve.peyton]

I used to use a lisp called BF FIND.

I can no longer locate it but if worked perfectly.

[Anonymous]

how it works? it cannot show the list result which where to copy the results text.