Block attributes

[CCMoor]

I'm having trouble defining the issue I am running into.

I have dynamic blocks inserted into a drawing.
All I want to do is have the dblocks hatching appear a different color in this drawing only without affecting it in other drawings. I can bring up refedit for the object, its defined 20 times. I tried qselect but i must not be using the command properly. It changes nothing even though it tells me it is that color it didnt change in the drawing.

[CCMoor]

Like the attached file. If I wanted to change the hatch patterns to color #30 orange. How would I go about doing this?
What terms would define this change?
I keep reading other posts but I'm not sure what terminology describes the block type nor how to change this in a specific drawing without affecting other drawings.

[Anonymous]

I am not sure if you want your blocks to be dynamic or not.
At the moment you dont have 'dynamic' block.
I guess your blocks are columns.
If you want to change the color of a particular block, enter BE at the
command line.
This will display a dialog with the block names currently defined in your
current drawing.
Select the block you want to edit.
This will open the block in the Block Editor.
Make any changes you want.....for example change the color of the solid
hatch.
Save the block defenition changes....see the button at left hand side of top
toolbar.
This will update all the instances of the block in your current drawing.

I noticed that the hatch pattern applied to your C18x42 block was duplicated
abour 3 or 4 times.
If you want this block to show different hatch colors, consider adding
visibility parameters
for say showing the block with color 30 and color 65 (or whatever)
You can then have the block display different as you want.
See attached sample

Leo


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Like the attached file. If I wanted to change the hatch patterns to color
#30 orange. How would I go about doing this?
What terms would define this change?
I keep reading other posts but I'm not sure what terminology describes the
block type nor how to change this in a specific drawing without affecting
other drawings.

[Anonymous]

Why not make the hatch pattern BYBLOCK ? That way you can pick the block
and change the color properties to another color.


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Like the attached file. If I wanted to change the hatch patterns to color
#30 orange. How would I go about doing this?
What terms would define this change?
I keep reading other posts but I'm not sure what terminology describes the
block type nor how to change this in a specific drawing without affecting
other drawings.

[CCMoor]

"BE" or "BlockEdit" don't appear to be commands available.
I inherited the current configuration from a manager that made no documentation so repairs are arduous. This may be a custom shortcut in your pgp file.

What does the command line give you as a response to typing "BE"?

I tried using qselect to modify the hatch pattern color but this doesnt appear to work as the command line tells me 0 objects selected after I selected them and they still appear selected after the command exits.

[Anonymous]

BE started in R2006 for dynamic blocks. If this is a regular block you can
use REFEDIT/REFCLOSE to work on it. Change the hatch inside the block to be
BYBLOCK, close the edit session. Change the block (INSERT) to a color of
your choice. The hatch should change color. Might have to regen to see it.

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"BE" or "BlockEdit" don't appear to be commands available.
I inherited the current configuration from a manager that made no
documentation so repairs are arduous. This may be a custom shortcut in your
pgp file.

What does the command line give you as a response to typing "BE"?

I tried using qselect to modify the hatch pattern color but this doesnt
appear to work as the command line tells me 0 objects selected after I
selected them and they still appear selected after the command exits.

[CCMoor]

BE Still doesnt work in the 2006 environment nor 2004 so it may have been removed by the pgp in use.
Tell me what command invokes on the command prompt when you type BE?

What I am trying to get to is making a lisp routine to pull it off.

What is stopping me is the pattern of the steps involved.

These arent xref's so it is byblock.

what i cant seem to get to is where and how I can get all hatches to update. under after invoking REFEDIT and selecting the object.
I enter "QSELECT" at the command prompt
in the Quick Select dialogue box i set the following.
The Apply to: "Entire Drawing" is selected.
Object type: "Hatch" is selected
Properties: "Color" is selected
Operator: "=Equals"
Value: "Color 30"
How to apply: I have tried both settings neither seem to work and the command seems to bug into inserting a copy of the block again.
I've tried checking and unchecking
"Append to current selection set."

I thought quick select would open up all of the hatches for me but it seems like a dead end because it doesnt seem to work within the dialogue boxes let alone defining by lisp script commands. chprop works on individual selections but not global, cant access the hatches with a script.
It may just be the steps I am doing. I tried selecting all and "chprop" changing everything to bylayer but only a few changed color. I guess the items in the column blocks are just not able to accept global adjustments. I get this occuring in a select few drawings with no solution to batch the process.

[Anonymous]

The real AutoCAD name for the command is BEDIT.

[CCMoor]

Thanks! I'll try it.

[CCMoor]

No luck lol, but i can see the bedit interface is a good one.
Still doesn't allow me to change the hatch visible colors.
It claims the block color is the color i specified but its appearance is still the same.

[CCMoor]

From bedit i have to run the burst command to update the hatches in each reference.

[CCMoor]

how can i get to the block list in 2004? bedit is 2006 what was available before that lol?

[Anonymous]

It sounds to me like you have a block embedded inside of your block. You
can either explode the block inside the Block editor environment, or you
can explode the original block, the edit the embedded block. Do
whichever will give you the results you need.



CCMoor wrote:
> From bedit i have to run the burst command to update the hatches in each reference.

[Anonymous]

in 2004 you would use "REFEDIT"

kemp wrote:
> It sounds to me like you have a block embedded inside of your block. You
> can either explode the block inside the Block editor environment, or you
> can explode the original block, the edit the embedded block. Do
> whichever will give you the results you need.
>
>
>
> CCMoor wrote:
>> From bedit i have to run the burst command to update the hatches in each reference.

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[Anonymous]

in 2004 you would use "REFEDIT"

CCMoor wrote:
> how can i get to the block list in 2004? bedit is 2006 what was available before that lol?

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

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[CCMoor]

Thanks Kemp 😃

It was the nested blocks of an xref that made it seem worse than it really was.