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Question Hello, I would like to know if there's a way to link an attribute to certain property values of an object. To be precise, I have thousands of block attributes which are my room labels. I would like to link the AREA attribute to a the area property of a polyline. This would spare me days of work to manually update the attributes of each room just because I moved a wall 20cm to the left!
Thanks so much!
Answer not without a custom routine. there might be something built-in to building systems to do that if you have it. you might be able to find a shareware routine as well. I've done it in the past. you'd have to get pretty fancy with it for it to update automatically. it wouldn't be that big of a deal for it to be a 2-pick operation, pick attribute and pick perimeter.
