Topic: Rotating Blocks leaving attributes

[rhott]

I need to find a way to rotate a block without making the attributes inlegible.  Is this possible?

[VerticalMojo]

Are you talking about rotating the block and not the attributes?

This macro rotates the attributes to the correct position, then allows you to move it.....

^C^C-ate;YES;;;;\;ANGLE 0;POSITION;\;

[rhott]

Wow, how could somthing I've been trying to do for so long be so very easy.

One more question.
When I used to insert a block with attributes a dialog box would pop up so I could enter in the variables.  This no longer happens, the attributes all go to default. I'm sure this is just a setting I've missed or forgotten but I really need help this is taking forever!!

Thank a ton for your help!!

[SMadsen]

try attreq

[Sitra]

Try CMDDIA and set it to (1).

[VerticalMojo]

try attreq

I believe SMadsen is correct.....

[VerticalMojo]

Try CMDDIA and set it to (1).

what does CMDDIA do? I tried to look it up and there was no info on it....

[SMadsen]

It depends what the problem is
ATTREQ controls if attributes should be filled in at insertion or simply use the default settings without prompting.

ATTDIA controls dialog entry or text screen entry (given that ATTREQ is 1)

Maybe it's a combination of the two that's a problem?

[Sitra]

Try CMDDIA and set it to (1).

what does CMDDIA do? I tried to look it up and there was no info on it....

This is the info I got on CMDDIA:

How do I make my dialog boxes reappear?
A system variable named CMDDIA (command dialog) controls the display of many dialog boxes. Setting CMDDIA to 0 disables the display of these dialog boxes, forcing input from the command line. Set CMDDIA to 1 to have the dialog boxes display normally.

[SMadsen]

CMDDIA used to control display of the plot dialog (and some old database dialogs).

Can't remember if it  was already obsolete before 2005 but from 2005 it definately is.

[Sitra]

Don't know what happened got info from here:

http://www.ccadinc.com/faq/faq.html#filedia

[rhott]

    Goodness what alot of information!  You're all terrific!

As much as I hate to do this... the ATTREQ is what did the job
it's exactly what I was missing.
Thanks for all of your help today!!

[hyposmurf]

Maybe I should start another psot for this but its a very similar question.Does anyone know how I would select a number of attributes in a drawing at once and set all their attributes to 0 degrees,without going through them all individually?Cant select the attributes rotation via the properties window.

[SMadsen]

That could be done with a small routine. How would you want to select the attributes?

[daron]

Just set the ssget function to accept any type of selection with some filters for blocks with attributes, then change the property for rotation to 0. I belive the dxf code is 50, but I'm not looking so I could be wrong.