SW2007 & Blocks

Sep 13, 2006 2 Replies
W

We have discovered a few things about blocks and SW2007.


  1. It appears that you can no longer align them. In SW2006, you Ctrl select two or more, and a RMB menu has the Align option. Not now.


  1. The Insert Block icon was removed from the Annotations toolbar - I had to put it back from the Blocks toolbar.

  2. I had a macro that would not recognize the block any more. I was looking for a type 93 (BlockInstance), and the block is now recognized as a type 114 (SketchBlockInstance). I also had to use Set swSUBSKETCHINST = SelMgr.GetSelectedObject6(i, -1), rather than Set swBlockInst = SelMgr.GetSelectedObject4(i).

There's obviously been some changes in how SW handles blocks - I presume it's the result of incorporating the sketch blocks. More investigation to follow as I have a chance.



WT


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W

Quick update - if your blocks have sketch entities in them, you can drag a block and inference snap locate it. But, what if you don't have any sketch entities in your block?

WT

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I'm assuming that if you don't have sketch entities in a block you might have annotations instead?

They also removed the setting for snapping when dragging the center or corner of an annotation.

If you drag a block of annotations, it doesn't give inference lines, like when dragging just a single annotation.

The new Group functionality still gives the inference lines, though. So explode the block and make a group out of the annotations. It seems that if you make a block out of a group and then explode the block, you do not get the group back.

Hummm. Its always something.

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