

We can now select the blocks in the drawing.Ĥ) SELECT PROPERTIES – on the right side portion (category filter), right click and select “uncheck all” and then check the “Attribute” filter. This way we don’t see every item in the drawing. In the lower “Display Options” portion – uncheck the “Display all objects” box and then make sure that “Display blocks only” is selected. Since we created ATTs, lets uncheck everything in the “Object” column except for the “Attribute Definition.” * An easy way to uncheck all is to right click and select “uncheck all” then check the items that you do want checked. “Lights”Ģ) DEFINE DATA SOURCE – Select what drawings to extract data from OR Select individual objects from a single drawing.ģ) SELECT OBJECTS – Check or uncheck objects to extract their data. – Name the data extraction – this will create a. You can use those settings for this data extraction. The option below it (Use previous…) is for when you have already weeded through what information you want to extract, and placed a table…. When you start Data Extraction: (follow the 8 steps)ġ) Check the “Create New data extraction” for a new extraction. The most common uses are 1) creating a table that is placed within the drawing.Ģ) creating an excel spreadsheet with the extracted data. On the ribbon: Insert tab/ribbon > Linking & Extracting panel > (button)ĭata Extraction allows you to do a number of things with the data that you pull out of the drawing. Now that you spent all of that time creating data and attaching it to a block, you can now extract this data and create a total of items for costs or a bill of materials… Select a particular ATT by holding CTRL then double-clicking the ATTĪTTSYNC Synchronize ATTs from outside of BATTMANĪTTOUT Quick data extraction of selected blocks to a text (.txt) file

*Also activates when double-clicking the block or ATTĪTTREQ Turns off prompts when inserting a block with ATTs – good for quick

GATTE Global Attribute Editor – can either select an ATT or enter the name of the ATT or block. Instead, select each ATT individually in the desired order, then use a window to select the objects.īATTMAN Edits the main three (TAG, PROMPT & DEFAULT) and allows changes to be made to the order of prompts.

This will reverse the order that the ATTs will prompt. When making a block of the ATTs and objects, DO NOT use a window to select everything.
