Find – BricsCAD Centro Assistenza

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

Accessing the Command

command bar: find
keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+F
menu bar: Edit | Find
ribbon: Draw | Text | Find

: Find

Displays a dialog box:

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

The shortcut keystrokes listed below work only in this dialog box.

Option	Shortcut Keystroke	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 else 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; see below.
Find Next	Alt+F	Finds the next occurrence of the text string.
Replace	Alt+R	Replaces the found text string with the replacement string.
Replace All	Alt+A	Replaces all occurrences of the text string with the replacement string.
Select All		Selects all occurrences of the text string.
Zoom To		Zooms to the part of the drawing containing the found text string.
Zoom In Zoom Out		Allows to take a closer look at the text within the context of the drawing without having to end the Find and Replace operation.

Click Options..., then select the required selection options and click OK .

Find and Replace Options	Description
Block Attribute Value	When checked, searches the values of block attributes as well.
Dimension or Multileader Text	When checked, searches dimension text as well.
Text (MText, DText, Text)	When checked, searches regular text as well.
Table Text	When checked, searches texts in tables.
Hyperlink	When checked, searches in hyperlinks (URLs) as well.
Hyperlink Description	When checked, searches in hyperlink descriptions 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
Use Wildcard	When checked, allows the use of wildcard characters such as * and ?
Search blocks	When checked, searches for matching text strings inside blocks.
Ignore Hidden Items	When checked, ignores content on hidden and frozen layers.

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.