Blocks
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There was an interesting coincidence, earlier in the week. A blog comment came in on an old post on the exact day there was an internal email discussion on the same topic. The post was about using the BLOCKICON command on a document that gets loaded into the editor just for that purpose, generating a […]
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This question came in recently by email: I have reached a snag when trying to find the boundaries of external references that have been "xclipped" by the user. Or, to be more precise, I can't even really find the data telling me whether or not the external reference has been "xclipped" at all. I'm wondering […]
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An interesting question came in via email from Rob Outman. He's interested in applying a selection filter when the user selects dynamic blocks. This is straightforward for unmodified dynamic blocks – just as with standard blocks, you can filter on the block name very easily – but it works less well on dynamic blocks whose […]
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This was a nice little solution I saw provided recently by Viru Aithal from DevTech India. It's a simple command to open a drawing and generate preview icons for each of the blocks it contains. It forces an icon to be generated – when it doesn't already exist – via Viru's old trick of using […]
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This interesting question came up in our discussion forums: Does anyone have a routine that will insert all the drawings from a single folder into one drawing to create a legend sheet? I'm trying to document the company's various blocks and details for dissemination amongst several offices. The simplest – and most elegant, in my […]
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Time to go back to basics. I realised recently – on receiving this comment – that I hadn't specifically covered the nature of Entity.Explode() in a post (even if it's been used in a few of them, over the years). Entity.Explode() is one of those tricky methods: it's actually a faux-ami with the AutoCAD command […]
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The reason for this post may be obvious to some – probably those who are doing this kind of analysis already – and less obvious to others – who will have to wait for the next post to see why it's helpful. 🙂 I won't ruin the surprise, but suffice it to say that for […]
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Thanks for Chris, Dan and Dale for pointing out the obvious issue(s) with my last post. Let's just blame it on a few holiday cobwebs needing brushing away during the first week back in the saddle. 🙂 The main issue with my previous implementation was that I'd somehow forgotten that Database.Insert() allows you to insert […]
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Important note: the code in this post – while potentially interesting, at a certain level – has been superceded by the code in the following post. Please go ahead and use that simpler, more complete implementation instead. This question came in, over the holidays, that seemed like it was worth addressing: How do I get […]
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I've now checked in for my flight to Las Vegas – and, thanks to Jeremy Tammik's recent troubles, I luckily renewed my ESTA – so I'm pretty much all set for my trip to AU 2010, at least from a travel perspective. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that the gastric 'flu my kids seem […]