Count

Quickly and accurately count the instances of objects in a drawing. You can insert a table with the count data into the current drawing.

The Count feature offers visual count results and more control over the count criteria. Specify a single block or object in the model space to count its instances. You can also use the Count palette to display and manage the counted blocks in the current drawing.

When you're in an active count, the Count toolbar displays at the top of the drawing area. The Count toolbar includes the number of objects and issues, along with other controls to manage the counted objects.

The count details icon changes depending on whether the current count contains errors. Click or to open the Count palette and view more details.

	Displays the count criteria including the general properties of the counted objects and any user-defined block attributes and parameters.
	Displays the count criteria including the general properties, user-defined block attributes and parameters, and the issue report of the counted objects. Issues can include overlapping, exploded, or renamed objects.

Note: The count list includes blocks that are nested within other blocks.

New Commands

COUNT - Counts and highlights the instances of the selected object in the drawing.

COUNTCLOSE - Closes the Count toolbar and exits the count.

COUNTFIELD - Creates a field that's set to the value of the current count.

COUNTLIST - Opens the Count palette to view and manage the counted blocks.

COUNTLISTCLOSE - Closes the Count palette.

COUNTNAVNEXT - Zooms to the next object in the count result.

COUNTNAVPREV - Zooms to the previous object in the count result.

COUNTTABLE - Inserts a table containing the block names and the corresponding count of each block in the drawing.

Changed Commands

FIELD - Creates a multiline text object with a field that can be updated automatically as the field value changes.

New System Variables

COUNTCHECK - Controls the types of errors to check in the count.

COUNTCOLOR - Sets the highlighting color on objects in a count.

COUNTERRORCOLOR - Sets the highlighting color on objects that can cause potential errors in a count.

COUNTERRORNUM - Displays the number errors in the current count.

COUNTNUMBER - Displays the number of the current count.

COUNTPALETTESTATE - Reports whether the Count palette is open or closed.

COUNTSERVICE - Controls the background indexing of the count.