Block attribute size on dynamic blocks

[Anonymous]

Hello, I'm working on a Master file containing all the borders for my company, we use 8 1/2" x 11", 11x17 and 24x36 formats. I'm making a dynamic block that can switch the borders depending on the format you want to use. everything is working fine except when i switch to the 24x36 format, the information in the attributes remain with the 11x17 or 8 1/2x 11 size. Any ideas to have the attributes change scale to match the 24x36 format will be greatly appreciated!. I'm attaching the file for your review.

[imadHabash]

Hi and Welcome to AutoCAD Forum,

i just want to say that it's more recommend and practical if you make every title sheet alone and as dwg file. i mean every dwg file represent a title sheet size. usually title sheets inserted as xref attachments for a whole project .

Regards, 

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the response Imad, under normal circumstances I would agree with you, however my company has a program that "auto-fills" the information on the block attributes. This feature would not work when the border is inserted as an xref unfortunately. And they requested the Master file with all the borders in it.

[TheCADnoob]

You have several duplicated Attributes (Use BATTMAN to bring up Block attribute manager). The attributes in red are the problems. 

Likely you copied the attributes instead of moving them when you create the visibility states. 

[Anonymous]

Pardon my ignorance, but I don't see any "duplicate" attributes, I see similar attributes but none were duplicate. Could yo expand on your answer a little bit. Thank you for your help!

[TheCADnoob]

Not a problem. In the menu i brought up using the command BATTMAN there are several items that are hightlighted by using red text. This means they are not unique tags. 

If your BATTMAN is not showing this you can change that in settings. 

What this means is that you have used the same tag information twice. So when you tell the attribute to show up or disappear in the visibility states it does not know which attribute to act on. this is why your block is not behaving like you expected. 

There are a couple methods to solve this. one is to create a unique set of attribute per paper size, but given that your company is trying to drive this with external data this might cause problems. Another way would be to use your look up table and apply some more parameters like location or scale tied in with a single set of attributes. This will likely be a pretty hairy mess eventually. 

To solve your problem what i would suggest doing is to set you attributes to be invisible and use text fields to look up attribute data to populate your title blocks. This way you can easily tailor your blocks text without having to use complex lookup table or linked dynamic block elements.