RENAME — Rename

Changes the name of layers, blocks, styles and other named objects.

• Command: RENAME · Global name: _RENAME · Alias: REN
• Ribbon: Home › Utilities
• Menu: Format

Changes the name of blocks, dimension styles, layers, linetypes, multileader, text, table and multiline styles, UCSs, views, viewport configurations and layouts. Everything that refers to them is updated: the inserts of a block, the entities of a layer or a style, the layers of a linetype and the current values of the drawing.

Usage

1. Enter RENAME (or REN).
2. In the Rename dialog, choose the type on the left and the item on the right (or type its name in Old name).
3. Type the new name next to Rename to and click that button. You can rename several in a row; OK closes the dialog.

Notes

• Layer 0 and Defpoints, the ByLayer, ByBlock and Continuous linetypes, the Standard styles, the space blocks and the anonymous ones (*U…), and what comes from an external reference cannot be renamed.
• The new name cannot be in use already nor contain <>/\":;?*|,= or a backquote. Changing only the case is allowed.
• All the renames of one session are undone at once with U. To do it on the command line, use -RENAME.

See also

-RENAME · LAYER · STYLE · DIMSTYLE · LAYOUT