Find

Works with Bricscad (Windows) Classic and Pro, Bricscad (Linux) Classic

Searches for text and optionally replaces it; searches through text blocks, attributes, dimensions, and hyperlinks.

Accessing the Command

command bar: Find

menu bar: Edit | Find

: find

Displays a dialog box:

Enter text to look for or replace, and then click Find Next.

Command Options

Option	Description
Find Text String	Specifies the text to be located.
Replace With	Specifies the text with which to replace the located text. Leave this field empty when only searching for text.
Search In	Specifies the range of search: Entire Drawing - searches all text in the drawing. Current Selection - searches only among the selected entities.
Select Entities	Dismisses the dialog box so that you can select the entities to search; prompts you: Select entities - choose one or more entities. Select entities - choose more entities, or press Enter to return to the dialog box.
Options	Displays the Find and Replace Options dialog box; allows you to specify the kinds of text entities to search.
Find Next	Finds the next occurrance of the text string.
Replace	Replaces the found text string with the replacement string.
Replace All	Replaces all occurances of the text string with the replacement string.
Select All	Selects all occurances of the text string.
Zoom To	Zooms to the part of the drawing containing the found text string.

Choose options, and then click OK.

Find and Replace Options	Description
Block Attribute Value	Searches the values of block attributes as well.
Dimension Annotation Text	Searches dimension text as well.
Text (MText, DText, Text)	Searches regular text as well.
Hyperlink Description	Searches hyperlink descriptions as well.
Hyperlink	Searches hyperlinks (URLs) as well.
Match Case	Searches the case of the text: Yes - finds text that matches upper and lower case. For example, searching for "BricsCAD" matches BricsCAD but not bricscad. No - finds all text, regardless of upper or lowercase.
Whole Words Only	Searches for full words: Yes - finds only text that matches entire words. For example, searching for "CAD" matches CAD but not BricsCAD. No - finds all text, including text embedded in longer words.

Related Commands

Text - places single-lines of text in drawings.

-Text - places text and evaluates LISP expressions.

MText and -MText - places paragraph text.

AttDef - defines attribute text.

DdEdit - edits text.

Hyperlink - adds hyperlinks to entities.

Spell - checks the spelling of words.

Properties - modifies the properties of text.