AutoCAD 2022 | Count Command | New Command in AutoCAD 2022

1. Count Introduction: Hello everyone and welcome to this particular class. Now here, if you are joining for this particular class, you'll be learning about how to use the count feature inside AutoCad. Now this particular feature has been neutrally newly introduced in this particular version, that is autocad 2022. So believe me, if you are using this particular feature that will help you a lot. Now you can see this particular drawing and I can give you a brief idea about what this thing is. Now, sure as you see this particular drawing, you can clearly notice that a lot of chairs, there are a lot of CPUs, there are a lot of phones, which are a part of this particular drawing which is present as a block. Now if you want that automatically listed over here, that how many chairs are there, how many computers are there? How many doors are there? How many doors of 36 inches are there? That all things can be easily figured out in this particular session. That is using the count. And one more thing I want to tell you before we leave. This is not something which is like what we can see, something which is static, something we just counted. This is all dynamic. For example, if I just try to think about increasing the number of chairs and CPUs. So let's say I'm just creating some copies of it. Again. As of now you can see the number is still the same, 6654. I increase the number of chairs and this CPU, I just refreshed my drawing. And voila, I have 8169 CPUs. Now join this particular class to learn more about the Count feature. It is just to lecture away and you will be able to create similar stuff very easily by yourself here in AutoCad. Now a bonus tip, you'll also learn how to change the color of the background of autocad in this particular tutorial itself. Okay, so thank you for watching this particular part, the introduction video. I hope you enjoyed it and please see you in the session. Thank you very much for watching. Have a great day. 2. Learning the Count Feature: Hello. I would like to warmly welcome you to this particular class. Now, in this particular class, class, we're going to learn about account feature, which is newly present in article 2022. So basically this particular feature or this particular command has been newly added in this particular version of AutoCad. This is something which you will find only in AutoCad 2022 and hopefully in the later versions of autocrat as well. If you are using any version below to get 2022, I would highly recommend you, if you want to use this particular feature, kindly agreed to autocrat 2022 so that you can also have a look at this particular set of features. Now if you want to follow along, kindly follow along with me and I'll be explaining you in detail how to use this particular Count feature and how exactly that can be beneficial. Now first of all, what we're gonna do is we're going to all open a drawing so that we can actually use this count feature on a practical object. And to do so, what we're gonna do is we're going to click on this application. I can afford a cat. Okay, so here we have the application I can afford to get from where we can create a new drawing, open a drawing and do multiple stuff. Now here I'm going to click on this arrow next to open. And I'm going to click on this sample file, installed sample files so you can see the path again. It's open. Sample files, installed, some refills. Now once you click on this particular option called installed sample files, then you will get a Windows dialogue or a Windows form, which will ask you or which will give you a set of folders. Now here you will have some set of folders from where we have to open this particular folder called Database Connectivity. Now here you can double-click on Database Connectivity folder and open it. Now before we do anything, ensure one thing that the file of type you're looking for is dot DWG. If by mistake lead has been changed, you can change it back to dot DWG. Then from here, select the floor plan sample file, which is a drawing file provided with or we can say from the time when AutoCad 2009 was created. From that time till now, this particular file is there in AutoCad and you will find it in respect to any version in AutoCad. So I'm opening this file, and here I click on Open. It will give you a small message saying that the file which you are about to open, which is present inside C drive Program Files, Autodesk, AutoCAD 2020, Two Sample Database Connectivity, floor plan sampled or DWG is currently in use or in read-only mode. So basically this particular drawing which has been provided from Autodesk is only in read only mode. So technically you cannot do any changes. This very file itself. What you can actually do is you can use this particular file as a save as file. So for example, you can open this by clicking on yes. Then what you can technically do is you can actually save this file with a different name in a different location by using this particular option called Save As. That can be accessed from this quiz quick access toolbar over here. Or you can go to the application icon and choose Save as you can save it in a different name, in a different location, and then this drawing will be totally all yours. Okay, So I hope you understood how to save this particular drawing as a different name or with a different feature. For this particular video, I will be, or for this particular class, I will be using the same read-only file itself because I don't want to generate any dot DWG output from this particular file. Now, what I'm gonna do is I'm going to explain you how to use the count feature. But before I start with that, I would like to really tell you about one very important feature of photographs or one very thing which is bothering me from the time I have installed AutoCad 2022. That is the background of autocad. Now, if you have a great look at the background of autocad, particularly the article 2022 background is in a different color. It's kindly slightly bluish tint it, rather than a proper black color in article 20 or 2009 or 2010, it used to be white color, but I want my background up AutoCad to be completely black in color. And to do that, I can press Enter, that is for options. Or you can right-click in the graphics area of your screen and choose option. So basically this is a drawing area of the screen. I can go to Options. Then here you will find something called less colors. Now you can click on Colors. And here you will find 2D model space, uniform background color with the color code of 334048. I'm going to choose color black. Once I choose color black, if I click on Apply, you can see now background color changes. Now, one more thing you can do is you can choose any color you want to. For example, you can choose yellow color if you wish to. Or you can also choose, for example, white color. I want to choose a black color for now. I can click on Apply. And Okay, so now my AutoCad is with a proper black color background. Let us all have a look at this very feature called count. So now we can clearly understand how this count feature is actually going to work. So let us see that in action. So to access the account future, we have to go to the View tab. We have to go to the View tab over here, and you'll find this particular feature called count. Now count or the command for count feature is count list. Again, you can see the command as well over there. Okay, So if you enter count list as a command. You will be again taken back to the same location, or you will be actually accessing the same command. Now, for count to work, you need to know one very important thing that is blocks. Here in this particular unit floor plan. There are a lot of chairs, there are a lot of CPUs, there are a lot of telephones, were given various things are there, which are all blocks. So what I can do is I can click on Count. And effectively it will list me all the blocks there in this particular drawing. Okay, so as you can see, if there are chairs with the name of the block over here and the number of times that block has been repeated. So by default, the count command is going to search for all the blocks present in the drawing, Okay? And then it is going to give you the list of all the number of objects present with the same instance. For example, the chair has been repeated 66 times. The computer is repeated 54 times. So technically we can clearly understand that chair has been used more often than the CPU. Okay, so what I can actually do is if I click on chair, Okay, if I click on Share, you can notice only the chairs are being highlighted. I guess we can zoom in and you can actually see all the chairs over here with a count of 66. If I highlight competitor, and now I can see all the competitors over here and you can see how good it is like to view the drawing and to understand what exactly is happening. Your eye can see all the desk here. I can see a different form of Desk. Here. I can see all the four doors which are applicable are available. Here. We can see some different doors away with a count of 37. Here we can see some more doors, double dose, we can say particularly this is 36 inch doors and this is 69 inch door will get basically two of them. There are, I guess one of 72 as well. So as we can clearly see, there are a lot of objects present in this particular drawing, which gives us a brief insight about what all blocks are available. Now, the count command doesn't end over here, like giving you the list. It has some exclamation mark. If you see here in right in front of this particular block. Here, if I select this block, let's say for this example, DR 36 journey can see the exclamation sign and you can actually use this arrow to go to different locations of that block. And the software will automatically take you to all the possible instance of that block. Not only that, you can click on this exclamation sign and you can see the error. So there is an error over here. There is an overlapping objects, especially over this area. For example, this particular door. Like if I click on this, again, you can see the zooming in. So it has an overlapping objects. So technically this door is been used twice in the same location. So how to figure that out? I'll press escape. Okay. I'll select this door, only one of them again and try to move it around. And mentor, I'm selecting the point and moving it or else I'll show you how to move it. I can go to Home tab. I can choose the Move tool. I can select the object. I can press Enter, and then I can create a base point and move it. Now. Now I can clearly understand there were two doors which were by mistakenly placed by me or by anyone who made this particular drawing. So it was very easy for me to figure that particular part out. Now what I can do is I can delete this door. And currently there are total of 38 doors. As soon as I delete this, now I only have thirty-seven dollars. So this is how it is easy. This will get to look at this particular thing. Now, not only that you can see there is rectangular and there is an exclamation mark against the rectangle. Let us see that as well. Here it is showing me that this particular rectangle is supposed to be a rectangle, but it's supposed to be a block, but now it has been exploded, right? Okay, so it is showing me it is unexploded blog. And really I don't need to be more varied, more, you know much about it because it is again, unexploded block, so I don't really need to be worried about it. So for now, it's fine for me. And I can go back to the list and see all the blocks. Now here we can clearly understand how to manipulate using list, using the Count feature itself, how to see the number of elements over here. Now, if you want to count something else, okay, many people asked me when I have seen this particular feature that will it work only for block or will it work for anything I want to? Actually, it can work anything you want to. For example, you want to count the number of names. I can select it. I can right-click and choose this particular option called count. And then I can also count the number of names available as of now discounting for everything. Okay, so I can see the number of names available, the name tags. So this is a tag. This is the rectangle search where exactly that name when again, or for example, I'll just close it. I'll just click okay for the count. I'll select it right-click and choose count from here, okay, so it is not counting anything over there. Let's do the same thing with line, okay? Yes, now it is working. Now you can see my particular drawing half 7135 lines. So it has 707,135 lines in this entire vary drawing. This many lines we have created to make this particular drawing. Now if I'm happy with this account, I can click Okay or else I can press escape. You can also check for overlapping geometries in the same manner. For example, here, I want to see how many rectangles are polylines do I have? So I can right-click on it and choose count and have 13 of them. There is no exclamation mark. So that means everything is properly created or everything is probably been placed. So don't worry about it. Similarly, if I can right-click on a line and choose a count option here, and here I can see an exclamation mark. Here I can see the list of overlapping geometry, so I can go to the first one here. It is telling me that there is an overlapping line here. You can notice there is an overlapping line here. So the Count feature can greatly reduce your time in terms of being effective or in terms of creating the drawings properly? Again, so you can figure out where exactly there is an overlapping line. You can correct it. And then you can take the printout as an issue want to, for example, here, there is again an overlapping line. I can select this line. I can try to trim it up to the corner where it's supposed to go. And now I can see everything is going good. You can reduce the number of overlapping lines and overlapping things if you use discount, which are properly. Not only that, what you can also do is once you are in the Count feature, for example, here in the View tab. If I go to the Count feature here, if I choose, let's say I want to count the number of chairs, or let's say I want to count the number of comparators. So I'll just choose competitor. And here we have an option of inserting a count field. Now if I click there and place it, let's say over here. Okay. So it is telling me there is 54 competitors in this exact floor plan and this number is dynamic. Now why I say this number is dynamic because if I choose to copy you and a copy, and if I choose to multiply the number of computers, let's say I'm just roughly doing it. I'm also not sure how many numbers i'm I'm increasing, but I can see the count feature got up, got an update here that now I have 63 computers in this exact floor plan. But here it is still showing 54. I can press Enter, I can press R, E, and that is where refresh again. And as soon as I do that you can see the number got changed to 63. That means it is a dynamic input. So basically what is happening? Yes, it is automatically updating the number of increment in the block and it is awesome, automatically reducing it whenever it is gone. This will greatly help you to create John Henry details all to create bill of material which can have this kind of dynamic inputs. Similarly, what we can also do it. So rather than using those basic dynamic inputs, I can actually create a table with help of count. So what I can actually do here is I can say I want to create a table. I want to include the number of chairs. I want to include the number of computers. I will also want to include, let's say, the number of 36 inch doors and basic doors. I guess I can include all of them. Again. Once I decide what I want to include, I can click on Insert and then I can insert it wherever I want to. I can insert it here. And now it's showing me a dynamic list of this set of blocks. I can click Okey for the count. I'm done with the Count feature now, I can see a dynamic list off a table where it shrinks total of 66 chairs, 54 computers, door there are four, and D are 36, there are seven. Okay. This is how count, which is going to work. Now what I want you to do is once you complete this particular Count feature, then I want you to create this PDF with exact same information just to make sure you did it correctly. You have to press Control P, zoom into this area, press Control P, then choose over here in printer and Plata, AutoCad to high-quality print. Okay? Here you can choose any paper size you want to. You can choose A2, A4, any paper size you want to hear in water plot, choose Window. You're in what to plot, choose window. And then create a window around this table. Okay, now check the preview if everything is correct, okay, That's correct, but it is not centered. So what I can now do is I can choose center to plot, okay? And then I can click Okay, then you can save it wherever you wish to. For example, I want to save it here on the desktop. And here you can see I got a count over here of all the chairs, all the computers, all the doors, and this is what you can also upload as your project. So thank you very much for watching, have a great day and I hope you understood how to use the count feature as well. So thank you very much.