Attribute that updates based on location

[EYNLLIB]

I'm attempting to make a block with an attribute/field that when placed inside a pre-defined set of 4 coordinates (rectangle), the attribute field will update with a custom message. Anyone have any guidance with this? I'm guessing it will need a diesel expression, which I'm not all that familiar with.

 

I'm hoping this is the right forum since it involves coding an expression

 

Thanks

[BIGAL]

So if understand correctly you want to place a field value which says "This is inside area1 " You can certainly do as a lisp updating a value but not as a field. Not sure if you can do a COND in a field expression say looking at a multiple XY points.

[EYNLLIB]

7 minutes ago, BIGAL said:

So if understand correctly you want to place a field value which says "This is inside area1 " You can certainly do as a lisp updating a value but not as a field. Not sure if you can do a COND in a field expression say looking at a multiple XY points.

 

Yeah, I can easily do a lisp but I don't want to have my engineers have to run a lisp every time for this workflow.

I'm trying to have detail numbers auto populate based on where the detail title is located. So if the detail title attribute is in a specific area of model space, it will always be 1/S3.0, etc

[BIGAL]

I probably can not help, but post a sample dwg so others can look at it.

[Danielm103]

Nothing I can think of that’s built in, so you would have to roll something.

 

With lisp, you would use an event to update the attributes, i.e. attached to regen

There’s more options with ARX, .NET or Python

- Create your own custom field

- Create an Overrule that updates the attributes on close