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Trouble Reading AutoCAD Dynamic Blocks

  • August 24, 2018
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Hi,

Is there any way of reading AutoCAD dynamic block names/visibility states? Currently all I can seem to get is the anonymous '*U___' value in the 'autocad_block_name' field.

I feel like there should be a way of reading the real block name somewhere, as it picks up the correct block names in the reader parameters under 'Explode Selected Blocks'.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks.

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danilo_fme
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Hi @sammyc

There is a question similar, could you check if is the same: https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/67390/autocad-dynamic-block-name-extraction.html

Thanks,

Danilo


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Hi @sammyc - Looks like you're not alone on this one. Here's some more information: https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/3626/autocad-dynamic-block-name.html

 

 

Take note of the PR number referenced.

 

 

Also there is this idea here: https://knowledge.safe.com/content/idea/21982/writing-out-dynamic-blocks-to-autocad.html

 

 

 


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Hi @sammyc - Looks like you're not alone on this one. Here's some more information: https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/3626/autocad-dynamic-block-name.html

 

 

Take note of the PR number referenced.

 

 

Also there is this idea here: https://knowledge.safe.com/content/idea/21982/writing-out-dynamic-blocks-to-autocad.html

 

 

 

I've also created an Idea here which you can vote on: https://knowledge.safe.com/idea/77105/read-proper-dynamic-block-names-from-autocad-forma.html?

 

 


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Just voted on it.

 

 

Would love to see this as a feature in the future. So many of the models I come across now use dynamic blocks.