topic Re: To put Block Attribute in dimension in AutoCAD Forum

To put Block Attribute in dimension

jim.murphy — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 17:18:05 GMT

Is there a way to put a block attribute text into a dimension style?

Re: To put Block Attribute in dimension

GeeHaa — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 17:22:05 GMT

Why do you want to do this?

Re: To put Block Attribute in dimension

jggerth — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 20:31:58 GMT

I would say "Nope". And I'm not sure how it could be made possible, or how it would be useful. Each instance of an inserted Block can have a different value for the same Attribute definition, so you would need a mechanism for a Dimension Style to grab an attribute value, either as a prefix or suffix.

But there's no way in the style definition to handle any kind of link or field. What is possible is to edit the text of the Dimension String after it's placed, and use a Field to grab an attribue value from an inserted block, and add that to the DIM string

I suyppose it would be

Re: To put Block Attribute in dimension

3wood — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 22:02:19 GMT

You can use your block as part of a Mleader definition but not in a dimension style definition.

Re: To put Block Attribute in dimension

jim.murphy — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:59:16 GMT

I have blocks that have attributes in them. I place those blocks around my plan and then use a LISP routine to then number each one of those blocks sequentially. The LISP routine looks for attributed text. I want to be able to run this LISP on dimension strings to override the measurement and replace the dimension text with sequential numberings.

Re: To put Block Attribute in dimension

pendean — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 17:17:45 GMT

@Anonymous Duplicate your last reply (message #5) over at the LISP forum for help creating a customization that can do that for you https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/bd-p/130

It would help if you posted a sample DWG file too.

HTH