NEED ADVICE FOR CREATING DYNAMIC BLOCK THIS DYNAMIC BLOCK, SEE ATTACHED

[Anonymous]

I AM TRYING TO CREATE A DYNAMIC BLOCK FOR AN ITEM THAT VARIES IN LENGTH WIDTH AND HEIGHT AND IS PARTITIONED OFF INTO EQUAL CELLS, WITH ACEESS TO THESE CELLS ALWAYS CENTERED SEE IMAGE BELOW.  WHAT WOULD BE THE BEST PRACTICE TO CREATE SUCH A BLOCK.  WOULD I WANT TO HAVE IT ALL TABLE DRIVEN OR CAN I UTILIZE THE ARRAY AND STRETCH COMMAND?  I HAVE TRIED THE LATTER WITH ZERO SUCCESS SO FAR.  ALSO, MY CAPS LOCK IS NOT ON, I AM JUST IN A GLASS CASE OF EMOTION, LOL

[j.palmeL29YX]

Post a drawing (.dwg) please.

And tell us which values are to vary.

(And yes, your capitalized text is hard to read )

cadder

[Anonymous]

Yes, sorry about that, I am incurable hen pecker and didn't notice my Caps lock was on until the end.  I figured that since a lot of us are accustomed to engineering drawings that it wouldn't be too big of an issue, but I agree, not ideal.  I have attached the dwg file in question.  Basically this is what I need to happen with this dynamic block:

The overall shape of the filter box is fluid, i.e., not to boxes are ever the same length, width, or depth. 

These overall dimensions are dictated by the cell size and quantity (framed in by the plate walls).

The inner components, as well as the pipe flanged interfaces, must always on-center to each cell center. 

I would possibly like to make the three standard views into a single block.

I would like to further insert another dynamic block to change the size of the pipe interfacing, if this is at all possible. If not, I can figure something else out. 

[j.palmeL29YX]

Attached a proposal dwg, including a new block Test (please rename it). Try it.

This shows a solution in principle. May be you have to refine the selection sets of the actions.

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@@Anonymous  schrieb:
I would like to further insert another dynamic block to change the size of the pipe interfacing,

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What exactly do you want to change? (I guess this can be done in this block too, you don't need another block.)

cadder

[Anonymous]

Wow, you knocked that one out of the ball park, nicely done.  I was also wanting to change the filter height.

I have a couple pipe flange dynamic blocks with visibility states that I would like to insert on top of this block, the sizes changes between jobs.  I will attach so you can see what I am talking about.

[j.palmeL29YX · Accepted solution]

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@Anonymous  schrieb:

 I was also wanting to change the filter height..

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I thought so myself. But I didn't know if and how much to move the flanges. If you understood what I did you can do this surely yourselfe.

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@Anonymous  schrieb:

I have a couple pipe flange dynamic blocks with visibility states that I would like to insert on top of this block, the sizes changes between jobs.

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As far as I know, it's not possible to build nested Dynamic blocks.

There are some tricks with nested lookup parameters. But I don't know enough about it. Just hope and wait until one of the Dynamic Block Spezialists jumpes in this thread. (I guess you can't wait so long until I figured out how to manage this issue)

Off topic: A general tip for the future. If you need help for Dynamic Blocks, tell at the beginning all what you need , what the block should do. Adding wishes bit by bit makes work unnecessarily difficult for potential helpers.

cadder

[Anonymous]

Thanks for all your help Cadder, I really appreciate it, you saved me a lot of time going through a trial and error process.

I am going to work on some similar blocks and may have additional questions, but I should be able to reverse engineer your block.

Yes, agreed, nested dynamic blocks would be a great future possibility for us and time well spent as an upgrade for future releases (ahem-ahem Autodesk).