You will get a list of checkboxes that look like the figure below. You can make additional settings in the data extraction table by clicking the Settings button as shown in the option D of the figure above. You can also select an entire folder of drawings using the “Add Folder” button and the data will be extracted from all the drawings of the folder. To add multiple drawings, click the “Add Drawings” button and select drawings from where you want to extract data and click Open Button. You can also add multiple drawings to extract data for the data extraction table. When you select specific objects from the drawing area the data extraction will happen only from selected objects of the drawing.
Click on the button as shown in option B of the image above and the data extraction wizard will disappear, and you will be able to select objects from your drawing.Īfter making the selection press enter key and the wizard will pop back in. You can select the second radio button which says, “Select objects in the current drawing” and the box next to this option will activate. Understanding options on of the Data Extraction wizard Since we are interested right now in every block of the drawing, choose the first option as shown by annotation A in the image below and then proceed by clicking Next >. page 2 of Data Extraction wizard has the Panel on top called “Data source” which involves choosing whether we want to extract data from the whole drawing, or only a specific part. For this example, I will name this data extraction file “Sample DX” and save it on Desktop. In the next window specify the name of the data extraction file and specify a location where you want to save it and click the Save button. The Data Extraction wizard will open on the screen as shown in the image below, with options to create a new data extraction or to edit a pre-existing one.Ĭhoose the Create a new data extraction option in the window, and then click on Next >. To start the Data Extraction command, type DX into the Command Line and hit ENTER. The same workflow will work for extracting other types of data from drawing using the Data extraction tool Starting The Data Extraction Wizard The workflow of doing this using data extraction is explained below. For this example, let’s say we are interested in creating, for whatever reason, a table that lists all the properties including the count of blocks used in our drawing.
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