Extracting COGO Points from blocks with descriptions

[carl3ZPF6]

I have an issue where a have a massive drawing with 1000+ different blocks. Each block has an autocad point within it (which is also at the same position as the block insertion point). What I want to do is convert all the autocad points to COGO points. What I have been doing is exploding all blocks then converting the Autocad point to COGO points. This is an issue because any block information is lost. What I want to get as an output is all the COGO points but with a description of each point that is tied to the block it came from.

What I have tried is changing the autocad point to a COGO point at the block level (and adding the appropriate block description). The issue is when I go back to the drawing to try to explode these blocks, I get a duplicate point number error (I tried every option for re-sequencing but it seems the "apply to all points" check box is broken and I have to choose options for every single point [1000+]).

Is there a better way to do this? I know a little LISP so I am not opposed to a scripted solution.

Any help is appreciated.

[Pointdump]

Carl,
WBLOCK'ing out the blocks also works for your Point- Test_Script Output.dwg.
Dave

[carl3ZPF6]

Having to WBLOCK into another drawing every time will not be the ideal solution as there are operations I need to perform with the COGO points in the main drawing after they are inserted.

[carl3ZPF6]

@Pointdump 

I changed the script a bit to select only items on a layer I name "BEARINGS". Now the point output is good, but the descriptions all say "*Model Space"

[carl3ZPF6]

See script

[Pointdump]

Carl,
Not sure. I'm scratching my head and I'm definitely NOT proficient with Dynamo. One thing that helps nail down problems is a "Watch" node. Maybe change the lacing on Block.Name.
Dave

[carl3ZPF6]

@PointdumpI figured it out I was mixing data types. The geometry and raw description had to come from the same list. Thank you for all your help sir.

[Joe-Bouza]

Hi Dave 

is there something going on the DATAEXTRATION doesn't work?

does the block have attributes? I did not see a data set from the OP

[carl3ZPF6]

No, it worked well I just do it so often a scripted solution will save a lot of time.

[Pointdump]

Hi Joe,
DATAEXTRACTION worked, but it's always nice to have more than one way to do things. I had some fun playing with Dynamo. It's very powerful. I may just give it another crack.
Dave

[cwitzel5NL5H]

It is very powerful, but it does have it's quirks.  Selection Sets are hard to explain to end users. 

Excel integration is amazing and very powerful, but again, file selection is tricky to explain to end users.

There is tons of helpful posts and people on the forums and I have even written a simple python node.

We are still on 2023, but I think 2024 has a better set of built in nodes.

[Joe-Bouza]

Piquing my interest too