How to Make a Double Lookup

[Libbya]

Double lookups are so darn useful and slightly tricky to make so I figured I'd make a screencast in a dedicated thread that shows exactly how to make one and how to select each of the tables.

[tstorzuk]

Ok, not sure what's going wrong on my end....but when I copy the lookup parameter on the block authoring palette, and try to paste it....the PASTE is greyed out. Using AutoCAD 2023.Copy works fine  Paste is always greyed out

[h_s_walker]

@tstorzuk are you right clicking in the area ringed in the image below?

[tstorzuk]

@h_s_walker,

Yes. I've tried it there, and everywhere else on the palette.

This also happens when I try on the Parameter Sets tab, when I try copying and pasting the Lookup Set parameter. Paste is always greyed out.

Thought it might be a system setting like the BACTIONBARMODE, but I can't seem to find anything that might do this.

[h_s_walker]

@tstorzuk Try importing the attached file when in the block editor (remove the .txt extension) See the image below for where you need to import it to

[tstorzuk]

@h_s_walker 

Thanks, that helps get Lookup Set2 and Lookup Set3 into a new tab on my palette, a duplicate of the Parameter Sets tab.

It still doesn't change my inability to Paste parameters or parameter sets. But at least with that, I can start learning how to use the multiple lookups.

[h_s_walker]

@tstorzuk Yeah I don't understand why you can't paste. It is a weird one

[tstorzuk]

I think it has a lot to do with the way that Autodesk supplies their product. Online only, with absolutely no way to check if the download is correct.

Most companies that provide a download also provide a CHECKSUM of some sort, to allow the end user to confirm that the download matches 100%.

Autodesk refuses to do that.

With a file size that keeps growing every release, there's a way higher possibility that something can and will go wrong with the download. That's why 98% of their resolutions to problems with their software is "uninstall, re-download, reinstall".

[Ed__Jobe]

When you Paste, you are modifying your CUIx. You may not have enabled the ability to save the workspace. Type WSSETTINGS and check the Automatically Save Workspace Changes option.