From: Mathias Fuerlinger
Subject: autocad layer-rename utility
Date: 
Message-ID: <3666D423.BD10E05C@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de>
Anyone knows a lisp routine I can rename several layers at once ???
e.g. I've got 200 layers in numeric format.
00001
00002
00003 etc.

and I want them all to be renamed automatically to
A00001
A00002
A00003 etc.

Thanks in advance

Mathias Fuerlinger
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From: Dennis Shinn
Subject: Re: autocad layer-rename utility
Date: 
Message-ID: <746qj2$gve$2@brokaw.wa.com>
Greetings

Mathias Fuerlinger <···········@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de> posted the
following


>Anyone knows a lisp routine I can rename several layers at once ???
>e.g. I've got 200 layers in numeric format.
>00001
>00002
>00003 etc.

>and I want them all to be renamed automatically to
>A00001
>A00002
>A00003 etc.

Launch the ddrename dialog (ddrename at the command line). Select all the
layers you want to rename by holding the control key and picking each
oneindividually or select the first one in a contiguous list, scroll to the
last one and hold the shift key down while selecting it which will select
all layers between the first and this last one. Note that the "Old name"
edit box reads *varies*.

In the Rename to: edit box enter A* and press the Rename To: button. This
works in R14.01.

As I recall this also used to work at the command line rename/la option as
well but no longer does in R14.

Dennis Shinn
Anatech Systems
Technical support for the construction industry
http://www.anatechsys.com
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