Grips becoming misaligned on Dynamic Balloon

[nikkilawsonPLKEN]

Hi all,

I feel like I have tried everything with this now and I am totally stumped.

I have created a balloon which is easily moved via dynamic actions. However, when I use all 3 grips that I have available on the block, one of the grips will eventually become misaligned and I cannot figure out exactly why.

This is the misbehaving grip

The solution is likely obvious. But I can't figure it out to save my life!

If you move all 3 grips about a little, you eventually end up with this

I know I will have made a mistake somewhere. But I cant figure it out. Also, I must apologise for the mess that the Parameters are currently in, this is a result of furious trial and error. The block now looks totally different to how it was originally and I am unsure if it for better or worse.

Thank you all in advance for your assistance!

Nik.

[h_s_walker · Accepted solution]

You didn't need the rotate action or all those actions being chained. All I did was remove the rotate stuff, and added another polar stretch to distance 1 and added distance2 to the "Rotate only" part of the Polarstretch2 parameter.

See the attached drawing. The block is called test

[nikkilawsonPLKEN]

I am certain I almost found this solution in one of my previous revisions. I was fairly confident the things you mentioned were unnecessary, but everything else I tried didn't work. Throwing a rotate and a bunch of chained actions at it was my last resort. Then I quit and came here for help 🤣

I knew it would have been something simple that I had overlooked. It wasn't exactly a complicated block, but failing repeatedly has slowly melted away my brain cells and I couldn't find the solution.

Thank you for your assistance with this, I appreciate it very much.

[h_s_walker]

Yeah brain cell melting is a usual sign of trying to get a block to work.

[nikkilawsonPLKEN]

Indeed it is! While we are on the subject of this block (Sorry to pester you again!) when I insert the block I get thus HUGE box for the singular attribute.

I seem to remember in older versions of AutoCAD, the box was less excessive and I could also just hit a number and then hit the return key to confirm it (I think... it was a while ago). Is there a way to simplify this menu at all?

[h_s_walker]

I'm not too sure. It will be a variable somewhere, and you are right it's less excessive in LT2016. See the image below

EDIT: Yep it looks like they've upped the count to 15 lines. See the link below

AutoCAD 2022 Help | Edit Attributes Dialog Box | Autodesk

[nikkilawsonPLKEN]

Thanks for that! I will try to find a variable for it. I honestly wouldn't mind the 15 lines if the 'Ok' button was pre highlighted and triggers when you have entered your final attribute. I know its not a lot to move the mouse, but when you are adding 30+ of these to each drawing, all that extra mouse movement wastes a lot of time.

Hopefully I find a way to simplify it a little. Thank you again for your assistance, it is hugely appreciated!

[pendean]

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@nikkilawsonPLKEN wrote:

I honestly wouldn't mind the 15 lines if the 'Ok' button was pre highlighted and triggers when you have entered your final attribute. I know its not a lot to move the mouse, but when you are adding 30+ of these to each drawing, all that extra mouse movement wastes a lot of time.

Hopefully I find a way to simplify it a little. 

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Hold the CTRL key down when you double-click on an Attribute to edit it in place: no pop-up, no OK button to seek out. Classic AutoCAD functionality.

[nikkilawsonPLKEN]

That is great, thanks!

Is there a way to enable this same functionality when the block is inserted into a drawing and the dialogue box is automatically prompted to pop up? Or to disable the automatic pop-up entirely?