Visable in paperspace Yes/No?

[Anonymous]

I'm working with some blocks at the minute to show Proposed Gas Meters. When they have been fitted, the blocks then get deleted and replaced with a block showing Fitted Gas Meters. While this is a simple task of deleting the proposed and replacing it with the fitted, when it is a large site it can be time consuming to replace and position the new blocks.

Is it possible to set up a dynamic block, with editable properties of whether it is visible in paper space or not? The proposed blocks get frozen from paper space anyway, while the fitted ones remain visible. If this was to be able to be changed between the 2 with a click of a trigger it would maker the process a lot quicker.

Or is there any other workaround that would help here?

Cheers

[hwalker]

Welcome to the Forums

Yes there is. You just create a block with 2 visibility states

Proposed Gas Meter

Fitted Gas Meter.

Then all you need to do is change the visibility state.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the quick reply, but that wouldn't alter which part is shown in paper space would it?

Ideally I'd want the proposed to be a red rectangle, that is never visable in paperspace, and the fitted a red rectangle that is always visable in paper space.

[hwalker]

This is how it would work

A green rectangle for 1 state and a red rectangle for the other.

Once you change from one rectangle to the other eg green to red, the red rectangle becomes visible and the green rectangle becomes invisible no matter where you view it paperspace or modelspace.

OR you could have separate layers for the items and then VIEWPORT FREEZE the layer you don't want to see.

[jarredmonday]

Assuming both rectangles of the proposed and fitted to be visible in Modelspace? Would having two layers, one for each, and having one layer not visible in viewports?

[kasperwuyts]

If it is always all the blocks using the same name that get replaced, using the 'replace' command gets you where you want. Otherwise, just put all those blocks you don't want on a different layer and control that layers settings to be frozen in your paper space viewport, or simply just don't let that layer plot. No need to overengineer this with dynamic blocks.