Find all named objects in a drawing

For troubleshooting or collaborative purposes, you may need to know the named objects in your drawings, that is:

• Blocks
• Dimension styles
• Layers
• Linetypes
• Materials
• Table styles
• Text styles
• UCSs
• Viewports (really viewport configurations)
• Views
• Plot styles (which you see only if you’re using named plot styles)

You can see all your named objects by using the RENAME command. Choose Format > Rename, choose the type of named object you want, and you’ll see all of its items.

Of course, you can also use this command to rename objects; it’s very handy for that purpose.

Unfortunately, while you can select all of the named objects for a category, you can’t copy them to the Clipboard. It would be nice to have a way to export a list of all the named objects. Perhaps a reader has a suggestion?

Related posts:

1. Open a drawing to a named view
2. Display a named view in a viewport
3. Getting the perfect color
4. Plot on a black & white printer