dymanic block not working

[jmontie]

We are using a Dynamic block for status stamps. It uses the visiblity states. It is using a plotted date which is a proxy object. The block will not update in AutoCAD 2014 Mechanical. If I remove the proxy object, it will work fine. We have used this block since AutoCAD 2012. Does anybody have any ideas what would be wrong. I've reset my AutoCAD to default settings to rule out anything loaded with no luck.

I've already posted to the dynamic block forum, which doesn't seem to show up in the list of forums here and got nothing. I figure if I can't find it, it might not get viewed very often.

[M_Hensley]

The date plotted is Rtext which is the forerunner to fields. For rtext to work AutoCAD must be able to find the file RText.arx. Is the loacation of this file available to mechanical?

[jmontie]

Thanks for the reply. I did track down rtext.arx and tried to load it, but got this message. "text.arx is incompatible with this version of AutoCAD". But thanks, that answers that question. Now we have to figure out how bad we need the plotted date.

[pendean · Accepted solution]

You forgot to install and load Express Tools. Fix that.

OR BETTER YET: Replace it with a FIELD which is, by default, present in all the versions of AutoCAD you have now and in the future.

[jmontie]

Thanks, I will pass it along. I appreciate all the input, I was stumped.