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Is it possible to do a text search on a drawing

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Hello. My name is Raphael. I'm new to the forum. I work as an electrical designer for Manitou Group in France.

Question: Is it possible to do a text search on a drawing (like CTRL F with Windows)?

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Best answer by FriedhelmK

Hi Raphaël,

welcome back from hollydays

in the attachment you find the macro.

Save it in a location on your disk.

For exemple c:\temp\search_text.m

I will describe a methode that works in all user interfaces

In Drafting you put in the commandline:

INPUT 'c:\temp\search_text.m' then push ENTER

Load your drawing

In Drafting you put in the commandline:

Se_txt then push ENTER. That starts the macro

You will be asked to enter the searchstring

Following your example drawing enter

'b82 then push ENTER

The macro searches in the darwing for b82 in the manner of *b82* with ignoring upper or lower cases and will point to the position of the found text(s) with LEADER_LINES.

An other macrocall

Del_lead then push ENTER cleans up the LEADER_LINES.if you don't need them any more.

If you find out problems let me know.

Best regards

Friedhelm

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llokesh

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What i do, I take a PDF of the drawing (with Stroke all font options- this will let me search the text) and i search via PDF

i hope i answered your Question

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rproux

Author

1-Visitor

Thank you for your response lokesh lokesh, but i don't find "PDF Export Settings" ?

For information, i work with the release 18.1.

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lfortner

14-Alexandrite

I think not yet. For quite a long time an enhancement request has been placed in https://community.ptc.com/t5/Creo-Parametric-Ideas/Searchable-Viewables-PDF/idi-p/468752

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ndodelova

4-Participant

Hello, our company have developed some searching tools for MI drawings (the drawing format of Creo Elements/Direct Drafting (ME10)). Some of them are free-ware for all users. If you specify more in detail, for which type of searching you are interested, I can check, if we have such a tool (e.g. to search in drawing frame only, to search for texts with special font settings, to search in a dedicated part only etc). Regards

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FriedhelmK

17-Peridot

Hello Raphaël,

only for confirmation, you ask for "Creo Element/Direct Drafting" ?

If this is so there is a solution whith a Macro in Me10 Macro language.

But I want to be sure before I write some code

Best regards

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rproux

Author

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Thank you very much for all responses. I was on holidays, I'm back.

FriedhelmK‌‌,

I confirm you I use "Creo Element/Direct Drafting" .

It would be great if you could make a macro. However I know nothing about programming or how to run a macro on Drafting

For information, I join a drawing for exemple. Sometimes I need to find a wire from its number (there is about 400 wires on electric diagram) or a connector's number ... or other ...

Best regards

1_314685---extract-mi.zip

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MaxR.Kublin

13-Aquamarine

A search by "CTRL-F" is not possible.

As Friedhelm mentioned, a search via ME10 command language (Macro) is possible.

Also, a search for a text in a PDF generated by ME10 and/or Annotation is *not* possible, since the CAD application is "plotting"

text - and there is currently no setting to change this.

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jkramer

12-Amethyst

I made a (rough) lisp for that.

It scans all texts on an Annotation drawing and shows them in the display window.

See:

get_text_from_drawing.lsp

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FriedhelmK

Answer

17-Peridot

Hi Raphaël,

welcome back from hollydays

in the attachment you find the macro.

Save it in a location on your disk.

For exemple c:\temp\search_text.m

I will describe a methode that works in all user interfaces

In Drafting you put in the commandline:

INPUT 'c:\temp\search_text.m' then push ENTER

Load your drawing

In Drafting you put in the commandline:

Se_txt then push ENTER. That starts the macro

You will be asked to enter the searchstring

Following your example drawing enter

'b82 then push ENTER

The macro searches in the darwing for b82 in the manner of *b82* with ignoring upper or lower cases and will point to the position of the found text(s) with LEADER_LINES.

An other macrocall

Del_lead then push ENTER cleans up the LEADER_LINES.if you don't need them any more.

If you find out problems let me know.

Best regards

Friedhelm

1_search_text-m.zip