Making Invisible Attributes Visible

When creating attributes, a user has several options: Invisible, Constant, Verify and Preset. Each one of these Modes performs a different task. The Invisible mode controls whether the attribute is shown in the drawing.

At times, the user may want to see all the contents of the attribute including the tags that are invisible. To do this, the user can utilize the ATTDISP command. This nifty command turns on or off the visibility of all the attribute tags.

For this command to work, you must have attributes in your drawing that contain invisible tags. On the command line type ATTDISP. You will then see three options: Normal/ON/OFF. Each option offers something different.

ON, will turn on the visibility of all the attributes. OFF, will turn off the visibly of all the attributes, including those that are stipulated to be Constant, Verify or Preset. Normal, will turn off the invisible tags and leave the other modes as is.

Comments

[jd]

I have a large drawing with thousands of valve blocks with invisible attributes. While converting the blocks to a shp file, the invisible attributes do not convert only the visible ones. I've made multiple attempts to redefine the block with all visible attributes but have had no success. ANY SUGGESTIONS?

[Alex]

MadCadder,

How would you deal with controlling the attributes visibility on a single block with attributes. I need to turn on one of the attributes on the block only. ATTDISP controls visibility globally.

Thanks

[RANJITH]

I tried to make visible the invisible attributes. but i couldn't. i activiated the ATTDISP as ON. CAN PLZ help me on that ASAP