Block counter table with visibility states

[liis_l]

Hello!

I started trying out Lee Mac's Block Counter - that actually is awesome but I'm having problems with having different visibility states of blocks.  I realized it's not separating visibilities and counts it as one main block only.

My count table is supposed to show specific text on traffic sign - but the traffic sign number must remain.

Basic COUNT has quite good way to attributes info but unfortunately it shows also nested blocks - so it's not the best option for us.

I also tried out Dynamic Block Counter By Lee but it's not what I need due to only exporting tables not making table inside Autocad as Block Counter.

Are there any other alternatives for that? Or does someone have better idea to make it work as expected? 🙂

There's screenshot to understand better what I mean:

[ВeekeeCZ]

How about basic Data Extraction?

[AVCPlugins]

Alternatively, you can try using the DataTable plugin. But it is well adapted to work with dynamic blocks and nested blocks. And you can save tables in Excel.

[Sea-Haven]

If you pull the info out of your blocks and put it into a list then you can do stuff like count blocks and other info like dynamic block property or attributes.

I have a block count that works up to 5 attributes deep, used to make tables etc of quantity.

So taking say your sign and it has different sizes but is still a "stop" sign. Searching dwg.

(("stop" 600)("stop" 600)("stop" 750)("stop" 600)("stop" 900)("stop" 600))

Stop 600 4

stop 750 1

stop 900 1

Is that what your after ?

For maybe something simple like your signs Gile has a nice count routine for this task. Yes could also make a table with block images. 

[liis_l]

Does basic data extraction have opportunity to operate quickly? I mean if I make many different drawings a day that need tables with different blocks in drawing, is it possible to save 'filters'  to always use same ones quickly? 

[liis_l]

What do you mean by 'pull out the info'?

The scale of sign is not the problem. Problem is when I have visibility states with different texts that needs to be showed in table also. 

[ВeekeeCZ]

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@liis_l wrote:

Does basic data extraction have opportunity to operate quickly? I mean if I make many different drawings a day that need tables with different blocks in drawing, is it possible to save 'filters'  to always use same ones quickly? 

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That was just a tip from me just because I know it has this functionality. That's all. Find yourself 20 mins, read HELP, see youtube, explore the command in detail and find whether you'll be able to make the command useful to yourself.

[Sea-Haven]

You would just select all your blocks and a table would be made that is what I am saying, need a sample dwg to play with, block name does not matter. Would look at "*Uxx" blocks and get effective name, if dynamic block need to know property name to get that value.

An example of quantity of lines by length just bulk selected.