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I had previously made a block that worked perfectly in every way (see above) until the annotative scale was changed.

Your comments make a lot of sense regarding the behaviour.

Thank you so much for your detailed feedback both, I appreciate the time you have spent to respond. In other words, annotative objects inside of a block retain the annotative scale of the block editor when it is saved.Īlso, I recommend always setting the annotative scale to 1:1 in the block editor. They are inside of a block, and cannot be changed in any way without opening the block editor. This is because they only have the annotative scale of the overall block assigned to them. What happens in this current block is, the ACTUAL distance between the arrow and the 'A' is not changing nor is the ACTUAL size of the 'A', when the annotative scale changes. The entire block will react annotatively in proportion. Simply making the whole block annotative is sufficient. EDIT: I think this will also solve your rotation issues.Īnother thing, with the attribute definitions part of the arrow block, you don't make the attributes annotative, nor do you use an annotative text style in the attributes. That will open the attribute for editing without opening the block editor. With attribute definitions within the block, to edit the text after insertion you only need to double click ON the attribute text itself. Put both arrows and both text attributes all in one block, then add all the trick parameters and actions. You can avoid a lot of your issues by forgetting about making the arrows and the text attributes separate blocks. You are having to open the block editor to change your attribute values because the attributes are separate blocks. They don't work as nested blocks the way you are expecting them to. Look into block attribute definitions a little more.

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But, maybe I have not tested the particular parameter you are refering to.ĮDIT: Oh, do you want the letters to stay aligned (tilt over) with the arrows when the block is rotated? Hmmmm, for the moment I can't recall how to do that. However, this may not be the answer for your rotation issue, because I don't see anything wrong with the way the rotation works, nor do I see any difference in the way the block behaves in Test Block, and modelspace. The justification anchor point will 'orbit' around the insertion point of the text block. The odd rotation behavior can be caused by the text justification 'anchor point' being different than the text block insertion point. We cannot see it without Saving Block As. Apparently the final version of the block has not been saved in this drawing.

They are all separate, and it wants to open the final version in the block editor, upon opening the drawing. First thing, the drawing you provided does not have a final version of the block listed on the insert dialog.

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