Selecting Entities for Data Extraction

The Select Entities page of the Data Extraction wizard lets you specify the types of entities and drawing information to take into account for the data extraction table.

Entities list

Displays only entities that exist in the specified drawing. By default, the list includes entities from both, model and layout mode, including entities from Blocks and external References. To change the default settings, access Settings from the Define Data Source page.

For each entity, the following information is available:

• Entity. Displays each entity by its name.
• Display Name. Displays the default name of the entity. Optionally, you can provide an alternative name for each entity. Right-click a line in the list and select Edit display Name from the context menu. The specified name will appear in the data extraction table.
• Type. Specifies whether the entity is a block or not.

Right-clicking a line displays the following options:

• Check All. Selects all entities from the list.
• Uncheck All. Clears all entities from the list.
• Invert Selection. Reverts the current selected entities in the properties list.
• Edit display Name. Lets you modify the entity display name in the specified row.

You can filter the list using the Display options.

Properties of the entities that you select in the list of entities appear in the Select Properties page.

Clicking a column head reverses the order.

Display options

Lets you filter the list of entities.

• Display all entity types. Displays all entities of all types in the entities list.
• Display blocks only. Displays only blocks in the entities list.
• Display non-blocks only. Displays only entites that are not blocks.
• Display blocks with attributes only. Displays only blocks that have attributes.
• Display entities currently in-use only. Displays only entities that exist in the specified drawings.

Preview

Displays the preview image of a specified Block type entity.