Grouped objects and saving

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am creating a dynamic block with a ton of visibility states and I am grouping objects to help speed along the showing/hiding of objects for visibility. After I save, the objects are not grouped when I select them. Does anyone know how to prevent this? Is there a better way to group them? I'm worried that blocking them will mess with the visibility?

Thanks,

Michael

[pendean]

Blocks, not groups, is the way to do that.

[Anonymous]

If I understand correctly, what you are trying to do is group objects within a block?

There is no way I know of to do this, you can group objects in block editor, but once you close the editor, the grouping will "dissolve". What you could do is nest blocks inside of your dynamic block(s) and then control them with visibility state(s) as desired. Hope this is what you are looking for- if not, let us know.

[ВeekeeCZ]

Not experience this. Or not understand...

Grouped blocks stay in the group even after save/reopen.

Edit: Oh, I see. In block editor.

[Anonymous]

So if I block the objects inside the block editor instead of grouping, this will not mess with the already visibility states that the objects are already hidden or shown?

Thanks,

Michael

[vinodkl]

Hi,

The grouped object when blocked loose the property of grouping.

As you are saying you are creating dynamic block with "ton of visibility states", creating so many visibility will for choke up the AutoCAD. There are many other ways to create a dynamic block without using the visibility also, You could try posting the block and screenshot of what your trying to achieve in Dynamic Block forum, may be someone over there will be able to help you out.

[ВeekeeCZ]

Just turn off autosave and don't save unless the job's done.  🙂

[Anonymous]

It won't change existing objects' visibility if you add new blocks into the "main" block, but if you move existing objects (that already have parameters assigned) within the "main" block into new block(s), they will no longer exist as individual entities, they will become a new single entity, which will have no visibility or other parameters until you assign them. Hope this isn't too confusing....

[vinodkl]

FYI

BLOCK command does not work inside block editor. You need to copy the objects using base point(ctrl+shift+c) and then paste as block(ctrl+shift+v) and then delete the copied objects.