Macros & Dynamic blocks

[dustinbagley]

Hi all, I'm new to this form here so I would like to say hi and introduce myself. My name is Dustin and I currently work as a detailer for a civil engineering company. During my down time at work I like to make blocks and simple commands to help streamline my job. The problem I'm dealing with right now is whether or not it is possible to manipulate individual grips at a macro level. What I wish to do is create a command that will insert a dynamic block--which contains two polar stretch points--and then click both locations for the points. If anyone can understand this and knows what I'm talking about, please let me know if it can be done. Thanks.

[dustinbagley]

Nobody has any ideas?

[ASMI]

Have ideas but no time.

[rocheey]

Hi all, I'm new to this form here so I would like to say hi and introduce myself. My name is Dustin and I currently work as a detailer for a civil engineering company. During my down time at work I like to make blocks and simple commands to help streamline my job. The problem I'm dealing with right now is whether or not it is possible to manipulate individual grips at a macro level. What I wish to do is create a command that will insert a dynamic block--which contains two polar stretch points--and then click both locations for the points. If anyone can understand this and knows what I'm talking about, please let me know if it can be done. Thanks.

 

At the macro level, things will run a little differently. From a VBA perspective, could can place a block to a specific location - but not using a "ghost" image that follows your mouse around like is done by hand.

 

And if you know the names of the parameters in the dynamic block, you can just assign the values to these parameters - no "clicking" needed.

[rocheey]

OK, so i found a little time. Hopefully this upload thing will work correctly - never done it before.

 

Attached is a simple drawing, with a simple dynamic block, and some simple VBA code embedded within the drawing.

 

It will prompt for an insertion point for the (existing) dyanmic block, place the block, and then generate random parameters for the block

each time it is inserted.

 

I coded the Block name, and Block parameters, as constants; you might wish to do the same. Note that the parameters I used were simple numeric parameters (Double precision); for things like Origins, you'll want to use different data types.

Dyn_Block_Demo.dwg