insert prompt
@Anonymous wrote:
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On some of the computers i'm asked for the scale on x, then for scale on y (non-uniform scale). On the others I'm asked only for the scale on x,y and z in one question (uniform scale). ....
That should be a function of the definition of the Block, not a difference between settings on different computers. Specifying the Scale option [which will ask for one scale to apply uniformly, whether or not the Block is defined for uniform scaling], before the insertion point, as @ВeekeeCZ suggests, is the way to overcome the difference. [Whether you also specify the rotation angle beforehand is up to you.]
If you're really getting different prompts on different computers for the same Block, can you post a drawing with that Block in it, or the drawing file that is that Block definition, and the command-line histories of insertions of it on different computers? Might there be more than one definition, one for uniform scaling and the other not, possibly one internal to a certain drawing and the other internal to another, or the other as an external drawing file? Are they pulling the Block definition from the same place?
Kent Cooper, AIA 
@Anonymous wrote:
I turned on and off the 'uniform scaling' but this doesn't changer the prompt in autolisp.
Right -- that's the question. @ВeekeeCZ, whether the Block is defined for uniform scaling can only explain the scaling prompt(s) you [should] get when Inserting it [if you don't pre-empt them with the Scale option]. It doesn't explain why the prompts are not the same for the same Block on different computers, as one would certainly expect them to be. I'm at a loss....
And it raises a question in my mind: If I make a Block definition, set for uniform scaling, and then WBLOCK that out to make a separate drawing file, when I Insert that resulting drawing to become a Block in some other drawing, it comes in designed for uniform scaling [i.e. I can't un-check the uniform scaling button in the Insert dialog box]. I didn't expect that, because I thought it was a function of a Block definition within a drawing, but that a plain-old drawing wouldn't know about it, and once a Block definition is Wblocked out, the resulting drawing would lose that feature. So the question is, what is it in that resulting drawing file that limits it to uniform scaling when that drawing is Inserted to become a Block in another drawing? If I am making a drawing that I will be Inserting as a Block in other drawings, is there any way from within such a drawing [which has never yet been a Block definition] to set it up for uniform scaling? I haven't found any System Variable or anything, but I may not have searched for the right terminology.
Kent Cooper, AIA
@Anonymous wrote:
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When I changed SDI from 0 to 1 on my computer, the insert prompt changed to the old style, allowing only uniform scaling.
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Actually, the "old style" was always to ask for both X and Y scales [unless pre-empted by the Scale option first] -- the possibility of defining a Block for uniform scaling is a newer feature.
Kent Cooper, AIA
