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What does ByBlock mean?


Siberian

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In the dimension style dialog I can set the color of different elements. One of them is ByBlock - which I never understood. What block does this refer to? Can someone explain it? Thanks :)

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Is about block entities - check the BLOCK command. The said ByBlock is a logical color - that it, the entity will assume the color of its container (the block).

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Is about block entities - check the BLOCK command. The said ByBlock is a logical color - that it, the entity will assume the color of its container (the block).

 

It is only logical. :notworthy:

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...the entity will assume the color of its container.

But if I draw a dimension line (set to ByBlock) on whatever layer - what's its "container"?

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The ByBlock color (or linetype, for that matter) have meaning only for items that were inside block definitions. For more information on how to create and us a block, please check this tutorial.

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ByBlock as it relates to dimensions means it will take the value of the dimension rather than the individual components. It treats the whole dimension as a block containing text, dimension line, extension line, arrow, etc. ByBlock allows you to say, change the color of a dimension without having to edit styles.

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ByBlock as it relates to dimensions means it will take the value of the dimension rather than the individual components. It treats the whole dimension as a block containing text, dimension line, extension line, arrow, etc. ByBlock allows you to say, change the color of a dimension without having to edit styles.

 

Yeah, that's what I was going to say, but you said it so much better!

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