Rename Things the Lazy Way
Posted November 26, 2008 
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Comments(5) Want to know a quick way to rename something in your drawing?
Type RENAME on the command line to rename blocks, dimension styles, layers, linetypes, materials, table styles, text styles, UCSs, viewports, & views. Very powerful!
This dialog box gives you quick access to renaming things in your drawing.
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even quicker, type ‘ren’
how about an overview of renaming multiple entities with wildcards? it can be done, it is a PITA
Yes, typing REN is a lot quicker than typing RENAME. Thanks for the tip!
What’s this about PITA? Tell us more.
A P.I.T.A is like a P.I.T.N but lower down.
As for REN (unless it’s set for RENDER) you can apply wildcard functions to the dialogue box, as in *mech*3, so you can rename multiple layers, blocks, etc etc.
Very useful when you have a bound XREF with big long ugly names with $ in them or even names that are just too long.
This has got me out of shtuck on more than one occasion, but as soon as I have hacked my way through to satisfaction, I lose interest and just forget what I did because I need it so infrequently.
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I tried this and it only lets me rename one layer at a time and it won’t put it on an existing layer. Any suggestions