Edit attributes for existing blocks

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Now let's talk about editing attributes and blocks.

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There are a couple of methods

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I could double click

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on a block

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which opens up the enhanced attribute editor

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here you can see that I can change the value

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of

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the attribute.

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I can go to text options and change

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textile

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the justification

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and I can go to properties to change the layer,

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the color

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in the enhanced attribute editor.

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This method is a little bit limited though as you can't

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edit things like the mode or some other things that we

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defined with the attributes.

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So to edit more elements of an attribute,

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we can use the block attribute manager by typing in

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Batman B att

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man

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and it opens up the block attribute manager.

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And here you can select

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the block either with a drop down or by selecting it with the block picker.

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And once you have the block selected, you can click edit

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and now notice we have the modes available.

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We have the data for the tag,

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the prompt

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and

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what the default is.

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Maybe we go ahead and change the default

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to

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sales

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and click. OK?

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Now if I go to

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insert that block,

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notice how the default

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has changed.

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And of course, we can change the actual value as we bring the block in.

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So I'll close the

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blocks pallet.

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And next, what I'm going to do is define and add an attribute to an existing block,

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then get all instances of that block to have the

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attribute in it for every instance in the drawing.

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So the block I'm going to use is the phone block.

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I'm going to go ahead and make sure that

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phones is my current layer.

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And what I'm gonna do is double click on the phone block,

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click. OK? So that it comes up in the block editor.

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Now, I can either type in

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attribute definition like I did before or I can right here in the block editor,

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come up to the attribute definition

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button

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going to do the same thing that I did before with the modes.

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For this example,

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for the tag, I'm gonna type in

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ext for extension.

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The prompt will be what is the

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phone

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extension?

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And then the default, I'll just put as 1234,

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I'll go ahead and make this middle like I did with the other one

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and

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we'll make this

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one for the size,

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I'll click. OK?

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And I'll place it. Then I'm gonna do

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the same thing that I did before with the M two P,

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grab an endpoint,

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an end point and now this is

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in the middle,

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then I'm gonna go ahead and close a block editor and be sure to save

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changes to the phone

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now to get all of the phone blocks in the drawing

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to update so that they all have the attribute in them.

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I'm gonna type in att

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sync

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press enter,

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I'm going to use the name option and the name of this block is called

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FN

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phone

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and just like that as soon as I type in the name of the block

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and then press enter

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every instance

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of the phone now comes in

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with that attribute

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and there are a lot of these phones in this current drawing.

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So now all I would have to do

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is

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double click on the block of the phone and the attribute editor shows up

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so I could type in the actual value

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and that gets updated in the block.

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This can be useful information in this example as this drawing and all

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of its information can now be used as a facility management database.