topic Edit an instance or reference of a Dynamic Block in Dynamic Blocks Forum

Edit an instance or reference of a Dynamic Block

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:53:23 GMT

Hello everyone,

We're creating some dynamic blocks at work to do electrical connection drawings, thanks to this forum we found a way to create custom terminal blocks by using Dynamic Blocks and a counter block (see attached file) , we sometimes require to numerate these terminals from a starting number since we have separated blocks of terminals, we were able to do this with an attribute to start the count, however, if we edit a Dynamic block to change the starting number attribute, it will change this attribute for all the references to that Dynamic blocks in the drawing, and so all the terminal blocks will start with the same number.

I would like to be able to create an "instance" of the block and edit its attributes without changing other instances blocks.

as an example, we usually have a terminal block from 1 to 16 terminals, and to its right, a terminal block from 16 to 32. We would like to do that with the same dynamic block.

I know there are some unnamed blocks *U that are created for dynamic blocks, is there a way to operate over these handles?

Thank you in advance,

Re: Edit an instance or reference of a Dynamic Block

Libbya — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:46:20 GMT

A base point parameter within a dynamic block defines the origin point. If you move that base point parameter you change the X and Y values throughout the block. Because your formula uses the attributes Y position within the block, moving the basepoint parameter in the Y direction can be used to change the number of all of the attributes. The following screencast shows how to adjust the start number on a per block basis.

Re: Edit an instance or reference of a Dynamic Block

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 16:31:05 GMT

woah, this is amazing. Thank you!