{"id":171,"date":"2014-08-26T09:23:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T09:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2014-08-26T09:23:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T09:23:56","slug":"searchable-autocad-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/26\/searchable-autocad-drawings\/","title":{"rendered":"Searchable AutoCAD drawings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In both version 11.0 and 12.0 it is possible to search content in a drawing file from MasterExplorer.\u00a0 That makes it easier to find the drawing that you need to access.<\/p>\n<p>What do you need to do?<\/p>\n<p>The drawing files must use a font that is a\u00a0TrueType font for the text to be searchable. We have changed this on out templates so new drawings will have Arial as a default font.<\/p>\n<p>But how about our old drawings?<\/p>\n<p>We have a solution for this also. We update the drawings when the are open using a epc_hook.lsp<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instructions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Put the file &#8220;changeStyleToArial.lsp&#8221; in Custom Directory (%appdata%\/ides\/Master Concept 12\/Custom)<\/li>\n<li>Add following to the &#8220;epc_hook.lsp&#8221; located in (%appdata%\/ides\/Master Concept 12\/Custom)<br \/>\n&#8211; (princ &#8220;\\nChange style to ARIAL&#8221;)<br \/>\n&#8211; (load &#8220;changeStyleToArial.lsp&#8221; T)<\/li>\n<li>Finsihed<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/changeStyleToArial3.zip\">changeStyleToArial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In both version 11.0 and 12.0 it is possible to search content in a drawing file from MasterExplorer.\u00a0 That makes it easier to find the drawing that you need to access. What do you need to do? The drawing files must use a font that is a\u00a0TrueType font for the text to be searchable. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[12,13,36,46,78],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product","category-support","tag-11-0","tag-12-0","tag-content","tag-epc_hook-lsp","tag-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.idesglobal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}