Dynamic Blocks Not showing Attributes In Model Space

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have some dynamic blocks that were created in an older version of Autocad LT (2014) & work correctly in that version.

I'm looking to use these in full Autocad (2018) - however the dynamic attributes are not displaying when i import them on the tool pallet & insert into

model space.

When I got into the block editor I can see all the parameters such as visibility states etc, its in model space that no modifiable attributes are shown.

Has anyone come across this before?

[h_s_walker]

What scale is the block?

It needs to be the same in both directions. I would change the scale uniformly attribute in the block to yes.

[Anonymous]

Hi,
Thanks for the advice I have checked & they are both measured the same (between model/block editor) & the "scale uniformly" is turned on.
Is there a known compatibility issue between older CAD blocks being used in a newer version of AutoCAD?

[Libbya]

Post the file.

Your title and usage of the term attribute is misleading.  Attributes are specific text objects that allow text in blocks to be editable without changing the block definition.  What you are referring to as missing from your block are the dynamic grips.    

Does the file into which you are attempting to insert the block already have a pre-existing non-dynamic definition of the block?

[Anonymous]

Apologies I did mean dynamic grips.

-This is with any of my old LT2014 dynamic blocks that I insert  from an imported tool pallet into the 2018 version of Autocad.

If I open the block drawing with 2018 as its own entity, then the dynamic grips work, it seems to be when placing the block from the tool pallet that the grips don't seem to appear in model space (even in a brand new blank drawing).

Attached is the block file.

[h_s_walker]

Here have a breakline on me.

It stretches to have a little overhang. It also a double set of breaklines, and if you rotate it the breakline flips to still look correct

[Libbya]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Apologies I did mean dynamic grips.

-This is with any of my old LT2014 dynamic blocks that I insert  from an imported tool pallet into the 2018 version of Autocad.

If I open the block drawing with 2018 as its own entity, then the dynamic grips work, it seems to be when placing the block from the tool pallet that the grips don't seem to appear in model space (even in a brand new blank drawing).

Attached is the block file.

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Please post a the 'blank file' before attempting to insert the block.

Where is the tool palette tool directed to for the block definition?  Does that file have the updated version?  

[Libbya]

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@h_s_walker wrote:

Here have a breakline on me.

It stretches to have a little overhang. It also a double set of breaklines, and if you rotate it the breakline flips to still look correct

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It seems like most of the breakline blocks I've seen posted use the same center move and double stretch equally each direction.  I find that action setup to be really irritating in use.  I prefer two polar end grips that automatically center the squiggle.  Attached you can find the breakline block I use.  Center is a move, the two end grips are polar.  The block is an interesting combination of annotative and non-annotative objects so that if the anno scale is changed, the squiggle and the extra end lengths adjust annotatively, but the grip locations remain consistent.  The little orange lines are set to a layer that does not plot and only used as a quick visual reference.  

[Anonymous]

Hi It's directing to the correct location on my machine for this block (and all others)

If i insert my blocks from from the tool pallet & then go into into the block editor it shows all the dynamic grips.

But it doesn't not show those grips on model space.

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Thanks for sharing your breakline block  - however I have a catalogue of other dynamic blocks which all have this issue in Autocad2018 (but not 2014LT)

[Libbya]

The file you posted earlier shows the grips in model space for me.  I do not know of anything other than non-uniform scaling that will cause the grips to be invisible on a dynamic block that will otherwise show them.