It does not change the name in the menu file. It's the only option i've found so far, but I'm only dealing with a few users so it's not a real big deal for me to do it this way. I agree it's tedious, but it beats the heck out of re-creating the menus because the icons all changed to smiley...
Use notepad to edit the ICON####.BMP entries within the corresponding MENU.MNS file, changing them to the correct NAME.BMP names. When AutoCAD reloads, it will see that the MNS file has changed & recompile the MNC to have the new name associations. The BMP's must be in the support file search...
Striker provides a good work around...but his solution shows multiple instances of a "block containing the attribute", not multiple instances of "an attribute within a single block" which doesnt seem to be possible. I can use former though.
thanx to all for the input.
AutoCAD's attedit command does this without any lisp/VBA.
I think to much is being read into the original question, which was:
Can a single attribute value (e.g. Drawing Name) be displayed in more than one place within the same block without defining another attribute with the same value?
The...
If I'm not mistaken, by doing this with a program, you would still end up with 2 seperate attributes. This could allow one of the attributes to be changed at a later time without the other, resulting in "out of sync" attributes. What I was going for is having the same attribute value...
Is it possible to define a single attribute and have it appear more than one place on the block. I have a title block that has Drawing name at both the top & bottom right corners but I only wish to type it in once and have both reflect a new value if one changes.
