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Dynamic Blocks—Indexing, Viewing, and Searching
Posted: 14 November 2008 10:38 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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Attached is a zipped DWG illustrating a typical dynamic block with 3 insertions.

Both the block name and the Visibility State property should be indexed; the attached DWG has text beneach each insertion showing the correct values for these fields.

Viewer’s search functionality should also be updated to correctly find blocks based on those fields. 

In addition to search, Viewer displays these blocks incorrectly.  When opening this DWG in the Viewer (NPC build 5.0.2562.0):

* The wipeouts are blacked out—a known issue
* The attributes in the two right-most blocks are rotated (see the PDF in the attached .zip for how Viewer displays on my installation)  Those attributes are not rotated.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you,
Dan Glassman

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DynamicBlocks.zip  (File Size: 38KB - Downloads: 195)
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Posted: 14 November 2008 11:22 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Dan Glassman - 14 November 2008 10:38 AM

Both the block name and the Visibility State property should be indexed; the attached DWG has text beneach each insertion showing the correct values for these fields.

This information may already be indexed; it’s difficult for me to tell for sure.  Viewer doesn’t search them, though.

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Posted: 20 November 2008 09:02 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Hi Dan, Thank you for bringing this to our attention and providing the sample drawing - that is very helpful. I have logged a defect for this and we’ll try to have these issues corrected as soon as we can.
Thanks,
Chad

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