topic Re: Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu in AutoCAD Forum

Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu

TomBeauford — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:18:52 GMT

Right-clicking an Anonymous block will not bring up either ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu. Is this a bug? Any workaround?

Re: Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu

pendean — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:33:30 GMT

It can't be an anonymous block.

Re: Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu

TomBeauford — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:28:01 GMT

According to properties it's an anonymous block with one attribute. It's created by Autoturn software which runs as an AutoCAD plug-in. I have a lisp that converts it to a named block in both the ATTBLOCKREF and BLOCKREF Object Menus. Right-clicking an Anonymous block will not bring up either one.

Re: Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu

TomBeauford — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:34:22 GMT

Had to update my signature, this is happening on Civil 3D 2015.

Re: Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu

pendean — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:39:52 GMT

You may have misunderstood: I'm not doubting it is an anonymous block, I believe the commands/tools you want to use do not operate on those types of blocks.

And you probably need that add-on to recreate the block.

Re: Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu

TomBeauford — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 12:54:46 GMT

The command works great, that's not the issue. The problem is "Right-clicking an Anonymous block will not bring up either ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu." The ATTBLOCKREF and BLOCKREF Object Menus work as expected for regular blocks.

Re: Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu

pendean — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:04:59 GMT

Exactly: your anonymous block is NOT a "regular" block. That's the problem, it needs to be a "regular" block first.

Re: Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu

TomBeauford — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:25:56 GMT

So your answer to the original question is that those right-click shortcut menus aren't supposed to work with anonymous blocks.

Is it possible to create a right-click shortcut menu for anonymous blocks?

Re: Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu

pendean — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:48:47 GMT

Correct: the best approach would be to turn your anonymous block into a 'regular' block instead. There are many free lisps to do that, and a freeware at dotsoft.com called BLKRENANON.VLX that should do it too.

This is assuming your anonymous block is not a Dynamic block: then you're best off fixing it with BEDIT command instead.

Re: Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:23:20 GMT

@TomBeauford wrote:

Is it possible to create a right-click shortcut menu for anonymous blocks?

No... Autocad cannot edit anonymous blocks that were created by a 3rd party add-on.

Re: Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu

TomBeauford — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 19:38:54 GMT

AutoCAD cannot edit any anonymous blocks I have a lisp to give them names.

Lots of random replies here, but does anyone have an answer to the question?

Re: Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 20:48:45 GMT

Since this is peer to peer.....

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Re: Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Sep 2015 20:48:45 GMT

Since this is peer to peer.....

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Re: Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu

TomBeauford — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:05:14 GMT

Is there anyone who could provide an answer related to the question? Is it possible to have a right-click menu for an Anonymous block?

Re: Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu

Alfred.NESWADBA — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:42:16 GMT

Hi,

>> Is it possible to have a right-click menu for an Anonymous block?

AFAIK ... NO, not possible (without development).

And when an application developer creates anonymous blocks then that has reasons for his workflow ... you might crash the app when start to make modifications to these block-insertions.

- alfred -

Re: Anonymous Block ATTBLOCKREF or BLOCKREF Object Menu

TomBeauford — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:53:37 GMT

Thanks! Only entity I haven't been able to create one for. I've assigned names to them the past 15 years with lisp. Would have made it easier, but I've gotten by without it all these years.