Changing Text Height/Width of Individual Block Attribute

[Anonymous]

I will state up front, I am *not* looking for ATTSYNC, BATTMAN, BEDIT, or EATTEDIT - my searches have turned up those 4 commands nearly every time, and I am quite certain they are not the answer here. Awhile back I found a very specific command to change the text height and width of individual block attributes and after some time away from ACAD it escapes me. The functionality is as follows:

After typing the command into the command line, a dialog box appears. There is an option to enter the text height/width manually, or to copy the properties of existing text within the drawing - this functioned very much like the eyedropper tool in MSPaint, as it allows you to copy the properties of the reference text by clicking on it. After either manually entering the text properties or copying it from reference text within the drawing, then confirming my selection, the mouse icon was replaced by a small box and I could then apply the text properties to any text in the drawing simply by clicking it, very similar to the functionality of "Format Painter" in MSWord. 

It may not be that the command was even specific to attributes or blocks, simply that it allowed the text of those to be changed freely and easily. Any help determining this command is very much appreciated. 

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[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Sounds like a third party lisp or arx function.  Check over in the LISP group, someone there may have a clue.

or

www.THESWAMP.org 

[Anonymous]

Your LISP suggestion got me thinking in another direction for my google search, which eventually led me back to this, which is what I found way back when: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/edit-block-attribute-properties/td-p/...

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Yep, I have similar functions that date back to the late 80's.  Started with command calls to -attedit then graduated to monkeying with the dotted pairs.

Bear in mind that subsequent calls to ATTSYNC for blocks whose attributes have been altered will return those attribute to their block definition settings.

[Anonymous]

I believe you need the ATTSYNC command.....🤣

I think this is what you want.

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

I came across this (I usually start looking at Lee Mac's site first) because I changed an individual attribute's text width in a block used multiple times in a drawing, and then copied a bunch of times not realizing that I had changed it.  Since, I did not change the attribute in the block definition, ATTSYNC and the like don't work (as you know).

I'm still looking for a way to change multiple blocks attributes text widths at the same time....

[Anonymous]

I found the answer to my problem.  I remembered I had a problem with annotative block's attributes positions not resetting after changing the location in the block definition.

The solution to the aforementioned problem and the current is the same; add a new annotative scale to the blocks, ATTSYNC and then delete that annotative scale.