[SOLVED] changing the display of room dimensions in blocks

[Philsourish]

Hello,
I receive architect's plans with blocks containing area and height displays of rooms in the following form:
area : \A1 ... m \A1 ²
height : \A1 ... m \A1

https://imgur.com/mqrID7Y

see also attached file

I can edit the blocks and remove the "\A1" for each label, but it is tedious.
Is there a way to remove these "\A1" in a more automatic way ?
Thank you in advance for your help

Phil

Versions
QCAD version: 3.26.4.0
Date: Jun 4 2021
Qt version: 5.14.2
Compiler version: gcc 5.4.0
Build date: Jun 4 2021

Architecture: x86_64
OS: Linux
OS version: 20.04

[CVH]

Hi,

Is there a way to remove these "\A1" in a more automatic way ?

That's a harder one ...

Menu .. Edit .. Find/Replace (RP) finds only 44 occurrences.
I had to revert because not all "\A1" where replaced.

QCAD saves dxf files textual ...
Saved as dxf one can find 110 times "\A1;" or 166 times "\A1"
Looks like a specific formatting escape.

E.g. Notepad++
Replacing first the "\A1;" by nothing and then the "\A1" by nothing does the trick I presume.

Regards,
CVH

[Philsourish]

Thank you for your advice,

With Replace Edit: I can find some of the occurrences of "\A1", but the replacement doesn't work on the file itself (both in .dwg and .dxf).

On the other hand it works by editing each block and doing Find Replace "\A1" once and then Find Replace "\A1;"

This is still very tedious

[CVH]

With Replace Edit: I can find some of the occurrences of "\A1", but the replacement doesn't work on the file itself (both in .dwg and .dxf).

I saved your file as DXF.
Openend the DXF in Notepad++
With Notepad++ replaced all "\A1;" by nothing and then the "\A1"
Saved the file back under Notepad++.

DXF Looks fine when I load it under QCAD.

__Rez+1_revCVH.dxf

(1.58 MiB) Downloaded 291 times

One can save this back to dwg with QCAD.

Regards,
CVH

[Philsourish]

Thank you, the result is perfect!
but unfortunately Notepad++ does not work on Linux.
I will look for an equivalent editor to Notepad++ (or use a Windows PC)

[CVH]

but unfortunately Notepad++ does not work on Linux.

Any plain text editor will do ...
CVH

[Philsourish]

Yes, it works!
many thanks for the help