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I work for an electrical eng. firm and I'm trying to find a quick way to make a BOM from an Autocad drawing.
The panel drawings consist of a physical layout of panel components, such as terminal blocks, relays, power supplies, etc.
I'd like to automate the process of counting all the components in a drawing file and populating a BOM, right now we manually count them one-by-one and draw the BOM table.
I'm thinking of creating the components(as blocks) with attributes containing the information I need in the BOM and extracting it to be used in the BOM.
I know how to apply attributes to blocks and can probably figure out how to extract that info into a text file, what I'll need help with is writing a lisp file that will take this information and put it into a table, in Autocad, as lines and text, at a particular spacing.
I'm using Autocad 2002.
thanks,
John
Answer you can use the attext command to get the info out to the file. there are other free and express tools routines you can use to bring any text file into any drawing.
the attext output file will probably not be in the format you like and will require some manual cleanup.
there is a new feature in 2005 that might do what you want a bit better, but I have only looked at it briefly.
