AboutScott Cook Expertise I`ve been using AutoCAD since 1987 and programming AutoLISP nearly as long. I can answer questions about programming AutoCAD (except ARX) and production enhancement techniques. I cannot answer questions about AutoCAD crashes or DWG corruption. AutoCAD PROGRAMMING (menus, lisp) related questions only!
Experience Since 1987. Author of Plot2000 software for for AutoCAD, http://www.plot2000.com.
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Question Hi, I'm a traffic engineer and I'm working with a network of a big city, I imported a file from a GIS program (Transcad) to dxf format and opened it in autocad 2005, the file is full of little blocks with the shape of zones of the city, each block have five or six attributes containing the zone name, id, size, etc.
my problem is that when I turn visible the attributes hardly can see anything because the attributes fonts are too big with respect the blocks and all are in the same position,one over the another, for a block.
I tried too shrink and move the attributes but I only can do it for one block and one attribute at a time, and I have hundreds of blocks and thousands of attributes so I have no time to do such thing. I want to know if there is a way to do this as a batch process or edit in some way the dxf file to extract the attributes out of the blocks.
Answer there should be a lisp routine available to do what you want. I used to use one called PET for that but I don't know if it's still available. it was a commercial product. try poking around in the express tools too. perhaps a ddedit in conjunction with a selection set filter might allow you to edit the size all at once. If not, look for a shareware lisp routine.
