Blocks
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While my last post on tables was apparently interesting, it turns out it didn't actually address the question that inspired it. Oh well. Here's a recent comment that gave greater clarity on the requirement: Do you know those no smoking signs commonly seen in public places: a cigarette with a red cross struck through it. […]
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After the last post, where we saw some code that creates an AutoCAD table based on the blocks in a drawing, in this post we're going to modify our table, adding a new, initial column that numbers the contents. Here's what we want to create using our new MBT command: Here's the way the command […]
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This post – and the one to follow it – were inspired by a comment on this old post (which in many ways is quite similar to this one, just using an older syntax and starting with a static array of table data). We're creating a table with information about the various blocks in the […]
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I mentioned in a recent post about some code I put together to replace a drawing's internal block structure with external references. The code determines the blocks used in the modelspace and then works through, saving each to a file via the wblock mechanism and then attaching them back in as Xrefs. The code was […]
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When I was a boy, I used to love going to play with toys at my grandmother's house. My absolute favourite was a die-cast Batmobile made by Corgi in the UK. What I particularly liked about this toy was its hidden features: the cars apparently came with secret instructions, although these were nowhere to be […]
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Our old friend Roland Feletic emailed me last week. He'd been having some trouble with this previous post when jigging blocks with multiline attributes. Roland had also identified some code in this post on another blog which worked properly for him. I spent some time looking into what was wrong with the original post. It […]
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Some time ago I posted about how to use Entity.Explode() to do something similar to AutoCAD's EXPLODE command. At the time it was mentioned in the comments that BlockReference.ExplodeToOwnerSpace() had some relative benefits, but it's taken me some time to code up a simple sample to show how you might use it (Patrick's recent comment […]
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I wasn't expecting to write a third part in this series of posts, but then Samir Bittar went and asked a follow-up question that I felt obliged to look into. Thanks for the suggestion, Samir! 🙂 Samir basically wanted to provide the user with more feedback as they're selecting the nested entity – so that […]
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I was planning to post about Autodesk University 2013 today, but things have just been too hectic. I have a 3-hour layover in Heathrow on the journey home – which starts this evening – so I'll try to use that to post a summary of this year's AU as experienced by yours truly. In the […]
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I had this question come in from Bruce Gordon by email a couple of weeks ago, and it seemed like a fun one to look at: Is it possible to write a utility to pick a text entity in a block reference and move it to a new location? As a first step, I put […]