Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
the Block Attribute Manager
Click the Manage Attributes button in the expanded Block panel on the Home
tab, or enter
BATTMAN
at the command line to open the Block Attribute
Manager dialog box. There you can select a block and edit the various
parts of each attribute definition that the block contains, such as the tag,
prompt, and value.
the -AttEDit Command
You can also edit more than one attribute at a time by clicking the Edit Attributes
(Multiple) from the Attributes panel of the Insert tab, or by choosing Modify ➢
Object ➢ Attribute ➢ Global, or by entering
-ATTEDIT
↵
. The prompt reads
Edit attributes one at a time? [Yes/No] <Y>
. If you accept the
default of Yes, you're taken through a series of options for selecting attributes
to edit. Select the attributes to edit, and then press
↵
to end the selection pro-
cess. A large
X
appears at the insertion point of one of the selected attributes.
At this point, you get the following prompt:
Enter an option [Value/
Position/Height/Angle/Style/Layer/Color/Next] <N>:
, allowing
you to modify any of the characteristics listed in the prompt for the attribute with
the
X
. Press
↵
to move to the next selected attribute.
If you respond to the first prompt with No, you're taken through a similar
set of selection options. You're then asked to enter a current value to be
changed and to enter the new value after the change. You can change the
values of attributes globally by using the
ATTEDIT
command this way.
Controlling the Visibility of Attributes
The floor plan looks the same as it did at the beginning of this exercise, except
for the addition of the deck labels. But it includes more than meets the eye. What
was regular text is now an attribute, and your drawing is “smarter” than it was
before. The next few steps illustrate the display controls for the visible and invis-
ible attributes:
1.
On the Insert tab
➢
Attributes panel, click the down arrow next to
the Retain Attribute display button, and click Display All, as shown in
Figure 9.34.
All the attributes, including those designated as invisible, appear
with the room labels (see Figure 9.35).
Like the hyperlink you added to the notes in Chapter 8, the fields are
shown with a gray background, but this background does not appear
in the printed drawings. As you can see, one of the benefits of using
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