Topic: dynamic block Q

[Fuccaro]

In my AutoLisp routines I use to create the blocks I nee "on the fly" using ENTMAKE. But is it possible to ENTMAKE a dynamic block too?
Thank you!

[David Bethel]

i don't think so.  Jason was trying to do something similar over @ adesk.  -David

http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5021334

[Jeff_M]

From the Dev. help files:

You cannot create this object; BlockRef.GetDynamicBlockProperties returns a collection of DynamicBlockReferenceProperty objects if the block reference is a dynamic block containing custom properties.

Once you have obtained a dynamic block reference property object, use the following properties to query or edit its values:

[Joe Burke]

For what it's worth, if anything... you can make a copy of a dynamic block and rename it on-the-fly. Given code posted elsewhere by Tony called CloneBlock. It uses an ObjectDBX file to create an exact duplicate of source block name. Then it copies the renamed block back to the active document.

AFAIK, this is the only way to clone a dynamic block. Other methods which attempt to clone a block using entmake within the active file, will fail to bring a dynamic block's info along.

Tony's function is an example of how to do it. It needs a wrapper for cosmetic and error handling reasons. I'll post my wrapper if ayone is interested.

[Keith™]

Once you have the dynamic block wrapper, you might be able to simply edit the entities within the block, thus you are simply renaming the block and editing the block contents ... not really "creating" a block