Inserting drawing No.'s from ASCII file

[jspayne]

Please forgive my ignorance. I need to move a piece of text in a title block to a new location and put new text in its place. The new text needs to be read from a ASCII text file. This needs to be done to about 2000 drawings. I was thinking that I could have a program to open each drawing in a directory, move the required text, get a value from the first line in a text file and place it in the title block, then move to the next drawing and the next line in the ASCII file. I’m not a programmer as you might have guessed but I made some small lisp routines. I can handle moving the text but pulling a value from a ASCII file then opening the next drawing in a directory and moving to the next line in the text file I need help with. Heeeelp please!

 

[Mark Propst]

if your text file has exactly the same number of lines as there are drawings to process in your list, then you could do something like this write your lisp to move the text, open the text file(open), read the first line(read-line), insert the text, then delete the first line of the text file and save it(close)

then write a script to load and call the lisp

then use script pro to apply the script to the selected drawings

hth
Mark

Please forgive my ignorance. I need to move a piece of text in a title

block to a new location and put new text in its place. The new text needs to be read from a ASCII text file. This needs to be done to about 2000 drawings. I was thinking that I could have a program to open each drawing in a directory, move the required text, get a value from the first line in a text file and place it in the title block, then move to the next drawing and the next line in the ASCII file. I'm not a programmer as you might have guessed but I made some small lisp routines. I can handle moving the text but pulling a value from a ASCII file then opening the next drawing in a directory and moving to the next line in the text file I need help with.
Heeeelp please!