Dynamic Block text rotation help

[Anonymous]

Hi there, I have had a look through previous posts but having difficulty knowing where I am going wrong so any help would be appreciated.

I wish to create an offset arrow with text that rotates with the arrow.

I have created two so far, the one on the left just has a second rotate grip to rotate the text if necessary (as well as a flip to alter the arrow too) but wanted a simpler option so have used a Block table as suggested by a contributor on this site which seems to work OK but when the text does change orientation it moves well away from my arrow at the same time, unsure how to fix this.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Try this "trick".

Instead of using text, draw a dimension with all lines and arrows turned off. The dimension text has the desired override and is aligned.  I've used this on the attached compass rose so I easily indicate plan north and true north.  Of course if the text has to change then you might have to use a different approach.  Hope this helps.

[ojuris · Accepted solution]

try this

[Anonymous]

Thanks ojuris, that works great.

I am still not understanding how the table works. If Angle2 is 90 then Lookup1 '1', but what does '1' mean? I will have a play and see how I go.

Thanks again, this fixes my problem

[ojuris]

hi!

do you set   bactionbarmode   to 0 ?

Then you see that lookup parameter have 2 lookup tables

[Anonymous]

In my block the text content is static, since the compass orientations have not changed in the last millennia, I see no reason to allow for new letters to identify North, South, East or West.

Ojuris has a method for the text to be variable. and rotate with the line. See at the top of the topic for this example.

[Anonymous]

Thankyou!! it all makes sense now 🙂

[Edwin.Saez]

@ojuris,

¿Cómo lograste poner esos valores? . Estoy intentando copiar a otro bloque pero no me lo permite, se borra y no aparece nada. Incluso en el mismo bloque intento copiar ese valor a otro campo a continuación pero no puede.

[ojuris]

hi!

usually problem is with [270,0] - try to enter [270,359.99999999]

[Anonymous]

I've been having problem with this.

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@ojuris wrote:

try this

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Can you show me steps by steps how to create it? Thanks. 

[mhsQTFUX]

Hi Ojuris

@ojuris I would very much like to follow your best practice of making a dynamic block with text that rotate as your example does in your download Blocks-2.

Do you might have a description or video of how you set this up I could follow?

Thank you very much in advance

Br.Malene

[lotharerkens]

It's really easy to create a rotate function for text in blocks.  You have 3 options for the text:

attdef: which defines the text as an attribute and allows you to edit / modify the text without editing the block itself

you get a choice if you want a single line or multi line text and you can define the default space the text occupies

Dtext:  Single line text which will be static in nature, but you can rotate it. (I haven't used Dtext in over 20 years, but the command still remains and is supported in AutoCAD 2023)

Mtext: Multi line text with more choices than Dtext.

Once you have decided which text format you want to deploy in your block, type the contents of your message and format to get the desired appearance.

Step 2: choose the Rotate parameter from the Block Authoring Palette and position the center point of your desired rotation relative to the text you want to be able to rotate after the block is inserted into your drawing.  I tend to use text defined as attribute and position the rotate parameter on the insertion point of the attribute.  You'll have to decide what works best for your needs.  You'll have to decide on the radius (not important for this use), the default rotation (this defines where the handle is located relative to the center of the rotation, and lastly the label position.

Step 3: swap the Block Authoring Palette to show the Actions and choose the "Rotate" action.  You'll be prompted to select a parameter and you need to pick the handle of the rotate parameter you have just placed.  now select the text / attribute you want to be able to rotate.  Right click to close / complete this command.

By default, the rotate parameter is not limited by minimum, maximum or increment of rotation.  You can easily set these restrictions by selecting the parameter and changing the properties under "Value Set" in the properties dialog.

Close the block and save on closing.

You can now rotate the text displayed in your block.

[heather_o]

I use attributes and not text.  then you can rotate, but mirroring works best.  

[williamgodette]

Rotation Parameter and action I get... The (2) look up tables I am struggling with. Can you explain how you review the two table individually?

[williamgodette]

One more point. I can not get the second lookup "Action added to the single Lookup "Parameter" 

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, I cannot help with this issue, I never use Lookup Tables in any of my dynamic blocks.
Lothar

[h_s_walker]

@williamgodette 

Check this thread out on how to create double lookups

How to Make a Double Lookup - Autodesk Community - AutoCAD

[williamgodette]

C3D 2021 is behaving different. Does not let the user add action

[h_s_walker]

@williamgodette Click on the "lookup" text and a little menu box should show click on that and a dialog box will pop up where you can add more lookups. See the images below