Scaling dimension increment in Block

[scottspeig]

I have a simple dynamic block that stretches a set of lines by 3mm increments, but I am trying to add in a scale as well.

Is there a way to link the scale command to the increment (so if scaled up by 20, the increment = 60mm)?

Currently, once scaled up, the increment has remained at 3mm which is a little awkward and pointless in the end.

[Brock_Olly · Accepted solution]

There's no way to change the increment inside the block unfortunately.
However, if you scale your block using the properties palette with X, Y and Z having the same scale factor (or simply using scale command), the increment will scale with it as well. 

[scottspeig]

Thank you - That's interesting. Doesn't work for me unfortunately, as when I scale it up in this manner, the text in the block deforms (which the scale factor avoids).

Unless you know of a way to stop Arial Text from pixellating when scaling up inside a block.

[Brock_Olly]

Can you share the block? Text shouldn't be pixellating when scaling

[scottspeig]

No problem - I find text & mtext within blocks pixellates when you enlarge the block... The left hand is scaling the block (using x,y,z), whereas the right hand is scaling within the block (scale factor)

 

[Brock_Olly]

If I scale your block x2, x10, x100, I still get the same crisp-looking font, not pixellated at all.
It's probably a graphics issue on your end.
Check your drivers, set hardware acceleration on/off in GRAPHICSCONFIG and also check the diagnostics tab.

Other than that, I'm not sure why you'd want to scale the title block, usually you create one or two versions A3/A4/A0, though you probably have your reasons.

[Libbya]

No.  There is no way to dynamically alter a parameter increment.