Flip atributes

[Anonymous]

Hello Everyone,

Please check picture below and dwg attached.

As you can see when attribute is flipped(#2), the justification doesn't. So if you edit the text (#3), you need to reset the block (#4) then flip again.

To avoid this one step extra action, what would you do?

Thanks and Cheers,

Behzad

[Libbya]

This.  

[Anonymous]

Thanks Libbya,

Nice Idea. One step of needing to reset the block is gone but new step of "regenerating" is added.

Blocks I am working with are already complecated and I dont want to add more visibility states to it.

I was wonderring if we can do something with the attribute itself so when it is flipped the "Justify" point of it flips too.

I appreciate your time very much. Kudo given 🙂

But I need a solution that changes something withing the attribute itself.

Cheers,

[Libbya]

I do not believe there is any way to dynamically change the justification of a single attribute. 

REGEN lets you see the change immediately but if the FIELDEVAL sys variable is set to 32, it will update the field at save, close, open, plot, etc...  If a user makes the edit and doesn't regen, it will do so automatically, eventually.

[Anonymous]

Libbya,

I didn't know abpout Fieldeval. When I type it, I see it is on 31, and when I type 32, it says number shall be between 0 and 31.

If it is not possible yet to change the Justify of a attribute with flip, I think it is something for autodesk to think about that.

Thanks anyway. I will google Fieldeval to learn more about it.

Cheers,

[Libbya]

31 is correct.  I misspoke when i said 32.  At 31 it occurs for all triggering events.  I have an auto-loaded lisp that sets it to 31 for every file I open.  

[ojuris]

hi!

If you don't want add visibility you can simply scale attributes

[Imui · Accepted solution]

attsync

[Anonymous]

Thanks Ojuris,

I have to study what you did. 

You deleted visibilities and added the scale.

If I already have double lookup to control existing visibilities, this won't reduce the complexity.

Thanks anyway,

Cheers,

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Thanks. This is what I didn't try. Simple things you do that can fix big problems.

I can add a discription on "Flip" grip, asking the user to run Attsync if they do Flip.

If I could make the "Attsync" automatic if any attribute gets modified, it would have been perfect.

Cheers,

[Imui]

so..
dit you find any way?

[Anonymous]

Yes,

attsync is the answer. After you edit an atrrib which has been flipped, you need to do attsync to fix the alignments.

[Anonymous]

which was your way and i have selected as solution

[Imui]

I was asking if you found a way for what you wrote in post 10

"If I could make the "Attsync" automatic if any attribute gets modified, it would have been perfect."

[Anonymous]

Imui,

I didn't continue to search. Maybe there is a way.

Cheers

[mdhutchinson]

Did you find a way to fix this?

I think if you make the AttTribute multi-lined, fix the Justification appropriately then the justification will flip with the grip.