2bagz Posted February 20, 2011 Posted February 20, 2011 Hello, I am working on creating a dynamic block with lookup parameters and/or visibility filters. I am trying to achieve a block that can do the following: - be one of a series of different materials (Sheet PVC, Melomine, Masonite, etc.) selected through a lookup named 'material'. - for each of these materials there are a set of different colours available also achieved with a lookup named 'colour'. this lookup is actually a list of all the available colours in one list. - report the material and colour in a data extraction that is exported to Excel. I have had the success of getting it out... but would like to take this a step further... What I would like to do is have the 'colour' lookup filtered by the 'material' lookup to only display those colours that are available for the material. This will reduce the possibility of errors through selecting a colour that is not available for the selected material. I was able to get close to this using a visibility filter for the material, and a number of lookups for the colours of the different materials individually, but the problem with this approach was that each material colour needed a unique name, and therefore created another column in the data extraction (I am currently at 8 different materials). Anny suggestions would be appreciated. BTW I am trying to avoid any actual programming if at all possible as I am not a coder... I am attaching a drawing that has two blocks (test1 and test2). Test1 has the visibility filter and Test2 has only lookups. Thank you, Todd AutoCAD Version 2011 Material - Colour Data Extraction.dwg Quote
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