Search and Replace ( Drawing Editor )
Tool summary :
- Finds, in your current drawing, the " Search for " text that you enter, and replaces it with " Replace with " text that you enter.
- Search and Replace operates in your current drawing on all label " Label text ," primary dimension " Label text " and secondary dimension " Label text ," and on weld symbol " Supplementary tail text ."
- The Search and Replace window gives you the option (" Change hidden layers ") to operate on drawing layers that are hidden ('
Show ').
- Search and Replace does not operate on a bevel symbol " Rise " or " Run " or a " Weld size " or any bill information in the Bill Editor or compiled into a physical bill of material . It cannot be used to change a piecemark or section size or other type of mark on an erection view.
- Your current drawing can be a member detail or job standard detail or global standard or submaterial or erection view or detail sheet or gather sheet or erection sheet or sheet outline .
- Search and Replace is case sensitive. This means, for example, that three separate searches would be required for " BEAM " and " beam " and " Beam ".
- Search and Replace can find and replace strings that are embedded in other strings. For example, if you replaced 2 with the Roman numeral II , the string 3-2 1/2 would become 3- II 1/ II.
- Search and Replace can find and replace any characters that you can enter as dimensions, labels or tail text, including letters and numbers, punctuation, symbols such as $ or @ and Latin 1 characters 0160 to 0255 . Up to 10 characters can be entered.
- Tip: You can copy ( Ctrl + c ) and paste ( Ctrl + v ) text into " Search for " and " Replace with ."
- Tip: To erase a string of characters, enter those characters to " Search for ." Leave " Replace with " blank.
- Tip: Here's a nice alternative to search and replace. To edit all labels in a drawing that have the same text, right-click while hovering any label with that same text, then choose " Edit Other " or " Select Other " on the context menu . Then select on that menu the option for " All ... " labels that share the same text as the label you were hovering.
- See the step-by-step instructions .
Also see :
- Drawing Editor (where Search and Replace is a tool)
- Search and Replace in Selected Drawings (operates on multiple drawings)
- Undo (changes all replaced text back to the original text)
- Ctrl +c and Ctrl +v (to copy and paste the text you want to search for)
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1 . Open the drawing that you want to change using Search and Replace .
2 . Invoke Search and Replace using any one (1) of the following methods:
Method 1 : Click the Search and Replace icon. The icon can be taken from the group named ' Edit ' and placed on a toolbar (classic) or the ribbon (lightning).
Method 2 : If " Drawing Editor layout style " is ' Classic ', you can use the menu system to choose Edit > Search and Replace .
Method 3, 4 or 5 : Search and Replace can also be invoked using a keyboard shortcut , the context menu , or a mode . For the ' Lightning ' layout style, configuration of the interface is done using Customize Interface .
3 . The Search and Replace window opens.
3a : To " Search for ," type in the characters that you want to change.
3b : To " Replace with ," enter the characters you want to replace the " Search for " characters with.
3c : Check (
) the box for " Change hidden layers " if you want to also replace strings on drawing layers that are hidden .
3d : Press the " OK " button.
4 . Search and Replace replaces -- with the " Replace with " characters -- all instances of the " Search for " characters that occur in labels , primary & secondary dimension labels and weld tail text . A notification window tells you the number of " Changed items ."
4a : Press " OK " to dismiss the window that reports the number of drawings that have been changed.
Tip: If you don't like the results of the Search and Replace , you can use Undo .