BATTORDER — Attribute Order

Changes the order in which the block attributes are prompted (in the Block Editor).

• Command: BATTORDER · Global name: _BATTORDER

Changes the order of the attribute definitions of the block being edited, like AutoCAD BATTORDER: it is the order in which INSERT asks for their values. It only works in the Block Editor (BEDIT).

Usage

1. In the Block Editor, enter BATTORDER or click the button on the editor tab.
2. In the Attribute Order dialog box, pick a tag and move it with Move Up and Move Down.
3. Click OK and save the block with BSAVE.

In scripts, SCRIPT and AutoLISP there is no dialog box: enter the tags in the new order, separated by commas; the ones you leave out go after them, in their order.

Enter the tags in the new order (separated by commas):

Notes

• Existing inserts keep the order of their attributes until they are synchronized with ATTSYNC.
• AutoCAD prompts the attributes of a block made with a window in reverse order (from the last created to the first), and so does LinceCAD: this command fixes it. The dialog box cannot be scripted in the AutoCAD console (BATTORDER does not exist outside the Block Editor, which cannot be scripted either): it has a unit test.

See also

BEDIT · ATTDEF · BATTMAN · ATTSYNC