The Property Set Definition that includes the Formula property will also need to have a property that references the Object ID automatic property source. Set acadApp = GetObject(,"AutoCAD.Application") Fortunately, you can obtain the orignal block name from the EffectiveName property of the Dynamic Block instance, in a Formula property, using the the following VBScript code: One challenge is that the Name automatic property source may return an anonymous block name rather than the Dynamic Block name for example, when a Dynamic Block with a stretch action is stretched. While Dynamic Blocks and ACA do not always play nicely, there are some who want to take advantage of both Dynamic Blocks and the AutoCAD ® Architecture Schedule feature. Once I removed all of them, the Select File dialog opening time returned to normal. Thanks to the server issue, I had so many of these white folders that I could not help but notice them. Fortunately, AutoCAD/Windows gives you a clue that the link has become broken, by changing the folder icon from the manila, "3D" folder to a flat, white folder. What made the performance on Wednesday exceptionally bad was that the server on which projects started in 2011 were stored went down today, and I had a number of shortcuts to folders on that server. This turned any shortcuts to these project folders in AutoCAD into broken links, and waiting for these to time out was what had been causing the delay in opening the "Select File" dialogs. I have been short on hard drive space on my computer for the last year or so, and have occasionally made DVDs of my personal project folders for older projects and then removed them from my hard drive.
Unfortunately, I am not always diligent about removing older ones. I make extensive use of the fact that AutoCAD allows you to save the current folder in the "shortcut bar" at the left side of most "Select File" dialogs, such as the one that appears when you issue the OPEN command.
I was about to give up, when the problem planted itself right in front of me and amazingly enough I recognized it. Things were so bad that after I completed the task at hand, I took the time to check out each reference, but did not find any problems.
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I suspected that somewhere in my Options I had a bad file/folder reference or a folder that had a broken Windows shortcut in it. I was not experiencing that issue in ACA 2014. I had been noticing that the file dialogs in AutoCAD ® Architecture 2010 were opening somewhat slowly over the last several months and became exceptionally slow this past Wednesday. If the user could enter values that would be invalid, such as zero or negative values for a length parameter, or a value outside of the range available for the object, you can add one or more additional instance parameters and use a formula to assure an invalid value is not used.Īs an example, I created an upside-down "T" shaped Generic Model Family, where the length is restricted to 6" increments, while the width can be any value. But what if the object you are modeling only comes in specific increments? How can you prevent the end user from entering a value that is not available? You can add another instance-based parameter and by entering a formula, you can round the user-input value to the desired increment. Using an instance-based parameter allows you to do so, as this allows the end user to set the value as needed on each instance. There are times when you are creating a family to represent an object that can have multiple values for a particular parameter, such as a length, that you would prefer not to create a type for each possible length.
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