I have tags placed in multiply files, I would like to use the Batch process function to edit the text that is displayed. I understand that the comand line in the txt file needs to call up the edit tags comand but how do I tell it which tag to edit.
Zulu:I have tags placed in multiply files, I would like to use the Batch process function to edit the text that is displayed. I understand that the comand line in the txt file needs to call up the edit tags comand but how do I tell it which tag to edit.
zulu,
Tell us the whole story, from where do you get the new text-information to edit your tags.
Do have a "key-attribute" at your tags in the dgn to identify them?
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Frank
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What I'm trying to do is change the status of a 300 odd drawings from Tender to Construction. The Tender text is currently placed in the file as a tag, it came in with the drawing title block and was given its first value by using the edit tag tool.
From where do I get the new text-information to edit your tag? I'd not really planned that far ahead is there options, I hoping I could just say something along the lines of;
edit the text in the Title_Block tag set with the name of Status to say Construction
Do have a "key-attribute" at your tags in the dgn to identify them? I dont think so, as I know what they are but they sound good, are they?
Zulu,
I think you have to use a macro.
Attached yuo will find a macro we used when our company name changed.
The macro scans for a tagset named "Plankopf" and then changes the value of a tag with the definition
"Planverfasser-Zusatz". The it inserts the new value.
If you know the name of the tagset and the tagdefinition, you could change the macro.
Put this macro to a batchprocess for your files.
( use at your own risc- make a backup)
Hope it helps
Johannes
There's a program called Title Block Manager that will do this. It allows you to export all tag values to an xls in an intelligent order. In the xls you can change all of the values to what you want. Then you can use Title Block Manager to write the values back to the dgn. Here is a page on it: www.axiomint.com/.../titleblockmanager.htm
Thanks meiners, that worked great.
For the information of anyone else who may wish to know;
I saved the file HPPGMBH in the location MS_Marco is pointed to, edited it to suite my purpose.
Then in my Batch Process, Comand file I wrote;
vba load HPPGMBH
vba run Modul1.replaceTag
Added files I wanted to process and was done.
NOTE, as meiners said, use this at your own risk - test it first.