AutoCad :: Modify Text Attributes Associated With A Block

Jul 9, 2013

Is it possible to link Autocad to MS Access?

I want to modify text attributes associated with a block based on the input into an access database. I've read I could link the two using DB Connect, but so far all I've gotten is the Data View - Summary.

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AutoCad :: Modify Block With Attributes

Mar 29, 2012

I have a block which provides me a lot of things:

1) dwg name & path
2) date stamp
3) latest author of changes
4)misc. title block information

I'm not sure how to modify this one. I'd like to delete the item #4 options. I'm not even sure if I can edit this as a block.

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How to make a block with attribute text (like showing on sectioning?) a circle with arrow then line and there is editable text on the top of line or editable text inside the circle..

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I have a rotate function also so I can rotate the fitting to the orientation of the room.

But when I rotate the fitting the text rotates also, therefore if I turn the fitting round 90 degrees the text is on its side. How do I rotate the block but leave the text orientation the correct way?

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Jul 7, 2012

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Feb 7, 2012

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This works perfectly but now I want to go deeper and managed blockreferences with attributes.Based on my code, I can determine if oBTR.HasAttributeDefinitions is true or false.

If the blockreference has attributes, I suppose I will have to use Explode instead of ExplodeToOwnerSpace.

My first question is, using explode, I need before to know in which space the blockreference is inserted (Model or any layout) so to insert the exploded entities correctly. So, is it possible from a blockreference to get its own SpaceId?

An another idea I had is to edit the blockreference (not the block definition) to replace attributes with text...

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AutoCad 2D :: Rotate Block With Attributes - Messed Attributes

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From the attached image you can see what I'm talking about.

(left=original, middle=ROTATE, right=PROPERTIES)

When I rotate blocks using ROTATE command everything is fine, but when I rotate blocks using PROPERTIES my attributes get messed.

I need to rotate several blocks at once with PROPERTIES, because I don't have time to rotate each one separately.

The same thing happens when scaling blocks, but this was resolved using the command BSCALE in the command line.

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Feb 14, 2013

Is there a way to create a block with attributtes that automatically complete x, y, z, lat, long for the insertion point of the block?

I am trying to complete text in paperspace that will automatically fill in the lat long of a point in model space without using a table.  I have tried field insertion with reference to a cogo point, but it doesn't give options for position on a cogo point.  If I pick a block with attributes, it will let me pick any attributes, and x,y position for the block.

Cogo points show all the information I need to propagate in the properties....but how do I get that to translate into the text using fields or some other method?

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NVIDIA Quadro 600
Intel(R) Xenon(R) CPU E5-1607 0 @ 3.00GHz 3.00GHz
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AutoCad :: Clicking Block Go To Block Editor And Not Allow To Change Its Attributes

Oct 26, 2012

When the block is in a drawing and I click it, it takes me to block editor.

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Why does clicking the block go to block editor and not allow me to change its attributes as it does when I test block.

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Oct 31, 2013

I would like to change sub block from a visibility after setting it. Here an example of code to get the right visibility, I don't really know how to update a sub block by name or by handle(seems to change inside dynamic block).

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Dim BlockRef As AcadBlockReference
Dim DynEntBlock As AcadEntity
Dim DynObjRefH As IAcadBlockReference
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Apr 8, 2013

I can insert a block with block attributes using the Inter op very easily:

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theBlock = myDoc.ModelSpace.InsertBlock(pickScreenVBA, "Hydrant", 1.0#, 1.0#, 1.0#, 0)
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varAttributes(0).TextString ="3 Ports"
varAttributes(1).TextString ="Salt water"

Works great, but when I try using the non-inter op, all the example insert new Attributes and not add block with existing attribute (so I end up with duplicate attributes for each block - i.e "Salt water" attribute is added to the block each time I run the code), 

Are they any examples that does the same as above using the non-interop code?

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Dec 12, 2013

I'm trying to add some attributes to an existing block using the block editor, but after I save and close it I cannot see any 'placeholders' despite adding a default value and the attributes work fine when I double click the block.

I've tried using the ATTSYNC and BATTMAN commands but nothing works and there are no invisibility states applied to either the attribute or block and all layers are switched on.

I just tried making a quick block from scratch and it seems to have the same affect, except the default value will show, but no 'placeholder' shown if left blank.

I swear with previous version I could see the tag when a value hadn't been applied, so is it that the version I now use (2012) does not have this feature or it's disabled?

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Sep 19, 2011

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I know there is a problem with the line:

For Each item In myBTR.ObjectId

I've used a number of websites and books, but I would really like to find something that teaches about block tables, block table references, block table IDs so I can get a better understanding of breaking stuff down to get the info I need. 

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Dim myDWG As Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Document
Dim myDB As Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.Database
Dim myTransManForPageNumbers As Autodesk.AutoCAD.DatabaseServices.TransactionManager
Dim myTransForPageNumbers As Transaction

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Jun 3, 2013

Is there a way to modify the properties of a dynamic block after the insert and before a jig?

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Dec 13, 2012

using AutoCAD 2009 (vanilla)

I got too smart for myself today in bringing an old drawing up to current standards...Everyone seems to want their block attributes to be zero - I have blocks where the attributes are best when they match the rotations of each blocks.

I have an old drawing that was rotated (as it should be) at approx 2deg.

I used a lisp routine to global edit all the blocks that needed to be at zero. BUT for some reason (and after hundreds of blocks were corrected), I noticed I now have two blocks that should NOT have been in the set have had their attributes rotated to zero....and the attributes should be at the same rotation as their block's rotation.

Because those two blocks have a fixed tic mark, I can click on the mark to see what the block rotation is, then rotate its attribute to that rotation, but I have hundreds of blocks! One-at-a-time sucks....

Any chance there is a GLOBAL way to edit an attribute rotation to match its own block's rotation?

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Jun 24, 2013

I have created a custom set of construction callout to use with the Multileaders.

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Where are these block files coming from? How do I map my autocad to bring up these blocks?

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Feb 29, 2012

Function ReadDWG(ByVal DWGName As String)
Dim AcadApp As AcadApplication
Dim AcadDoc As AcadDocument
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[Code]...

I am using the above code to read block attributes depending on the name. But now I need to read the active drawing (drawing will be open and should read from the active document). In the above code I have referenced interop.dll. without that can I retrieve the block attributes. How to read the block attributes from the active document.

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May 20, 2013

I have a simple block with 2 attribute and 1 line inside it.

something like this:

Attribute1

──────

Attribute2

I want to modify length of line due to width of thoes attributs. length of line is equal to maximum(width attribute1 and width attribute2).

dxf code for start point of a line is 10 and end point for a line entity is 11.The question is: how can I modify the length of line automatically via maximum width of these attributes?

for getting width of a text:

(defun GetWidth ( en ) ((lambda ( lst ) (- (caadr lst) (caar lst))) (textbox en)))
sample:

A1
──────                    
Attribute2

Attribute1
──────           
A2

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Apr 24, 2013

I have this one file .txt with this features:

Point       North                   East                Z        Description

1          8618063,68       312415,09         75,87    T1
2          8618138,38       312428,89         70,57    B_RIO SECO
3          8618132,23       312427,75         71,90    ARENAL
4          8618126,23       312426,64         72,50    ARENAL
5          8618112,22       312424,06         73,77    ARENAL
6          8618099,78       312421,76         75,35    ARENAL
7          8618089,51       312419,86         75,84    ARENAL
8          8618132,23       312427,75         71,94    J
9          8618112,23       312424,06         73,88    J
10        8618099,82       312421,78         75,36    ARENAL
11        8618089,48       312419,87         75,85    E_1

And I generated this code for read this file and insert one block with attributes for each line of text…..

If txtPath.Text() = "" Then
MsgBox("Select DB .txt.", MsgBoxStyle.Exclamation)
End If
On Error GoTo ControlErroresBD
Dim AcadDocPt As Document =
[Code] ....

‘To the end of this line I can insert the block,,,,,,, but I don’t know how to write the attributes…… I tried with the next code but it doesn’t work…. My bloque has 3 attributes and every tag named with “PN”, “CD” and “CT”

Dim AcadObj As Entity
For Each acObjId As ObjectId In AcadBlockRef.AttributeCollection
AcadObj = AcadTransPt.GetObject(acObjId, OpenMode.ForWrite)
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Is there a way to do this? I did not see anything in the Style Editor to use my blocks' attributes, only the geometry.

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Here is a piece of code I was experimenting with. With this code, I'm trying to get to the attributes, and read an attribute value for a drawing number.  It fails when I try to assign a value to the variable blkreftitle.

Dim
doc AsDocument = Application.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument
Using docLoc AsDocumentLock = doc.LockDocument
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