Extract Attributes?

How can you extract attributes that are in an xref part?
I tried using _attext to export the attributes into a text file but it can't
find them. If I insert the block then it works fine?
Thanks
J

 

why wouldn't you bind the xref to an insert, extract to a ,txt, and then
undo the bind?

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Jamie Duncan

Consulting - If you're not part of the solution, there's good money in
prolonging the problem.

 

You would have to iterate over blocks in the 'local' drawing, then iterate
over the BlockTableRecord of each xref (BlockReference), find each block w/
attributes, and iterate over the attributes... shouldn't be too terribly
difficult... I would imagine that it could be done in lisp or vba...
however, I am out of practice with those.

 

If you email me a sample file, I can see if our AttCount utility will correctly work for you:

--Jeremiah

 

odd little quirk that I wouldn't depend on...

Bind the XREF as an INSERT, then use the express toll to turn a block into an XREF. The attributes stay attributes and are extractable with EATATTEXT.