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1 Click Conversion Tools tab Tools panel Block Replacement
drop-down Block Replacement.
2 Select to run the block replacement for the entire project, the active
drawing, or a selected component on the active drawing.
3 Click OK.
4 On the Select Mapping Spreadsheet dialog box, select the spreadsheet to
use for mapping the blocks and attributes.
5 Click Open.
If you select an existing spreadsheet the block replacement automatically
begins. If the spreadsheet file does not exist you are presented with the
option to create the spreadsheet framework for the block/attribute
mapping.
If a spreadsheet was not found, on the Spreadsheet Not Found dialog
box, click OK to run through the drawing set of the active project. Fill in
a blank spreadsheet with extracted block names and attributes. Only the
first column of each of the sheets are filled in. You can then add the
block/attribute mapping information and then rerun the command using
the new spreadsheet.
Block replacement
Performs drawing-wide and project-wide block replacements using a
user-defined spreadsheet. It automatically maps the non-AutoCAD Electrical
block inserts of the unconverted drawing and attributes to appropriate
AutoCAD Electrical-smart component symbols drawn from a symbol library.
Ribbon: Conversion Tools tab Tools panel Block Replacement
drop-down Block Replacement.
Toolbar: Conversion Tools
Menu: Projects Conversion Tools Block Replacement
Command entry: AEBLOCKREPLACE
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