Prefixing Classes

[nickhunter00]

Hi,

Just a quick one...I wonder if anyone had a script which would allow me to prefix all my classes once I have already imported a DWG? It's from a big OS Map, and I simply want to put "OS-" in front of every class so that they are all tucked away neatly, rather than having the 200 odd classes in my list.

Shorter (the CAD consultant at my old office) had a script which I think ran as a VSM, where you could simply highlight the classes you wanted to change, and then it would do the whole thing for you.

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know!

Thanks

N

[VincentCuclair]

There is an option for this in the dwg import dialog......

[Kevin McAllister]

There is a menu script at Vector Depot ( http://www.vectordepot.com/plug-ins/ ) that says it will do this. I haven't tried it but I think it will only do all of the Classes in a document.

You don't say what version of Vectorworks you are using but its probably worth a shot.

Kevin

[Farookey]

Hi there...

Here is what we use... You can make this script into a menu command as we've done... should work on every version...

Enjoy!

Procedure AppendStrToAllClasses;

{Written by Frank Brault, ?2004}

VAR

numberOfClasses, classIndex : LongInt;

classVisibility : Integer;

className, newClassName : String;

Begin

newClassName := StrDialog('This command will append the string entered here to the beginning of the name of each class.', 'Import-');

If Not(DidCancel) Then

Begin

numberOfClasses := ClassNum;

If numberOfClasses > 2 Then

Begin

classIndex := 0;

For classIndex := 3 To numberOfClasses Do

Begin

className := ClassList(classIndex);

classVisibility:= GetCVis(className);

RenameClass(className, Concat(newClassName, className));

End;

End

Else AlrtDialog('No classes were appended because there are no non-standard classes in this document. The classes "None" and "Dimension" are reserved.');

End;

End;

Run(AppendStrToAllClasses);

[Pat Stanford]

Nick,

You do realize there is an option in the DWG import routines to add a prefix to the classes as the import is taking place don't you?

[Christiaan]

By the sounds of things he's already imported and saved the file.

[Pat Stanford]

That's what I thought also, but it might be easier to reimport than to find/learn a script and if he does this often it can save a step to do it at import time.