I can use PowerSelector keyins to almost create a selection of all text elements. Text, text nodes and dimensions are available. However, notes are not available so I cant select notes text as well. Is there any other keyin or macro that might be available to also select notes, or to select all text elements?
MDL SILENTLOAD SELECTBY DIALOGDIALOG SELECTBYSELECTBY MODE EXCLUSIVESELECTBY OPTIONS SELECTIONSELECTBY ONSELECTBY TYPE NONESELECTBY TYPE ARCSELECTBY TYPE BSPLINESELECTBY TYPE BSPLINESURFACESELECTBY TYPE CELLSELECTBY TYPE COMPLEXSHAPESELECTBY TYPE COMPLEXSTRINGSELECTBY TYPE CONESELECTBY TYPE CURVESELECTBY TYPE ELLIPSESELECTBY TYPE LINESELECTBY TYPE LINESTRINGSELECTBY TYPE MESHSELECTBY TYPE MULTILINESELECTBY TYPE RASTERSELECTBY TYPE RASTERATTACHMENTSELECTBY TYPE SHAPESELECTBY TYPE SHAREDCELLSELECTBY TYPE SOLIDSELECTBY TYPE SURFACESELECTBY EXECUTEMDL UNLOAD SELECTBY
...I thought maybe I could use the "Exclusive" mode SelectBy Attributes and then I discovered that Notes are selected as cells.
Grouped Holes are also treated as cells when using Select By Attriutes. Which sucks like a tornado.
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Unknown said:Grouped Holes are also treated as cells
That's because a Grouped Hole is a cell, albeit an anonymous cell. But coders can distinguish a Grouped Hole from other elements, so it's reasonable to expect that Select By could do the same.
Why not post that suggestion to the Ideas Forum?
Unknown said:Is there any other keyin or macro that might be available to also select Notes
Why not post that also to the Ideas Forum?
Regards, Jon Summers LA Solutions
This is a suggested work around for future work flow, create a dim style and text style specifically for notes and define in these a specific named level reserved only for notes then you can always select by the level name...I havent had a chance to test his if it works all the time but it seems logical approach... Meanwhile for your present senario I think a custom VBA might be the only way.... there may also be a way to create the selection by item type selection query... I'll have to go consult my notes and do some tests.. .I will get back to you if it pans out...
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Jovan, hello!
I am trying to get more clarity on the use of the key-in, as I am stuck with couple roadblocks trying to select particular textnode with particular text in there ( yes, it gets very narrow in my case, as I need to select only one of several texnodes, ont the same level, with the same text formatting and color etc.)
so, my command currently is the following:
MDL LOAD SELECTBY
SELECTBY MODE INCLUSIVE
SELECTBY OPTIONS SELECTION
SELECTBY ON
SELECTBY LEVEL NONE
SELECTBY LEVEL G-ANNO-TITL
SELECTBY TYPE TEXTNODE
SELECTBY EXECUTE
currently I am stuck with the level selection, as it does not select specific level;
another issue I am having is selection of the text with the wildcard ( I need all the drawings of AXXX series, so text wildcard would look like "A*"
Thank you !