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Attribute text size not changing in dynamic block

jamami — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:12:55 GMT

I have developed the attached block but have an issue with the attribute.

Even though I defined a custom text style for this I cannot change the text height?

The problem I am experiencing is that I need to display this block at various scales but I cant change the text height. I have tried batman , attsync etc but even if i define the new height for each block, it remains the same.

if i explode the block it appears ok?

I was hoping I could simply change the text height of the custom test style and the attributes would all appear bigger so the are visible at the scale being plotted. Is this possible, do they need to be associative?

Re: Attribute text size not changing in dynamic block

jamami — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:31:09 GMT

appears attachment didn't appear in original thread which is now attached

Re: Attribute text size not changing in dynamic block

Moshe-A — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 07:35:54 GMT

@jamami hi,

i assume the difficulty is due you got nested blocks (blocks inside block) and it depend which command are you using? in general you can easily edit attributes when they are at the top (father) level of the block but even in your situation you can still get along if you use the old and good 😀

-ATTEDIT command (do dot forget the dash as prefix)

Moshe

Re: Attribute text size not changing in dynamic block

jamami — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:19:51 GMT

Hi
thank you for the reply.
The blocks are nested and I want to be able to control the attribute size without having to explode the blocks and manually redefine every individual block within the dynamic assembly.
I was hoping I could do this by using a custom text style for the attribute but with no success .

Re: Attribute text size not changing in dynamic block

Moshe-A — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:52:31 GMT

@jamami ,

i gave you solution, please read carefully what i said and if you do not understand say what?

Re: Attribute text size not changing in dynamic block

jamami — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:25:51 GMT

Hi
I appreciate your efforts however ,
i need a solution that doesn’t involve manually editing every block within the dynamic block to get it show correctly.

Re: Attribute text size not changing in dynamic block

jamami — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:26:56 GMT

I’ll give that a try.

Thank you for the suggestion .

Re: Attribute text size not changing in dynamic block

tony_jenkins — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:27:13 GMT

Sadly this does not work.

Plus it is not obvious what to make associative.

I made the text style associative that the attribute uses. No luck

I made the block that the attribute is contained within associative. No luck

I made the dynamic block that contains the nested attributed blocks associative. No luck

Im thinking the only way to control this is by using Lisp etc

Re: Attribute text size not changing in dynamic block

h_s_walker — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:23:40 GMT

@tony_jenkins why are you using attributes?

you don't need to use an attribute if it's just listing the type of beam. Just have an annotative text object in the master block for the beam. See the images below.

Re: Attribute text size not changing in dynamic block

tony_jenkins — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:33:45 GMT

thanks for the images

main issue is mirroring, the blocks are part of a reasonably complex dynamic block , we mirror all the time. text when inside a nested block mirrors, no matter what state mirrtxt variable is, attribute text does not mirror

Re: Attribute text size not changing in dynamic block

MMcCall402 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:05:12 GMT

Don't mirror the text directly. Use a point/move parameter/action with its action chained and select to mirror that point parameter. This should mirror the position of the text but not the text itself.

Re: Attribute text size not changing in dynamic block

tony_jenkins — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:32:38 GMT

unfortunately nothing solves this issue. as the attributed blocks are nested and part of a dynamic block it doesn't seem possible to access and amend these, using either associativity or text replacement. The only option I have found is to explode the blocks which is really undesirable.