Dwg Cad Blocks Library

[Sear Sommerfeldt]

Hiall,

I can't for the life of me work out how I did this in the first place. I have some blocks saved in my personal library, linked to several surveys. You can't change the questions in the surveys - I have to change the block in my library. This is what I want. If I look at the block in my library, I can see the three surveys it's linked to, and in the surveys see the icon and text telling me it's a reference block.

My question is... how do I do it again?! I want to create blocks in my org's shared library so others can edit if needed, but now I can only manage to copy the questions into a survey, not reference the block. I've found how to reference a survey, but that's neither what I need nor what I did previously.

Someone, please save me from tearing my hair out!

Hi HWYoung ,

For blocks the functionality is located in the Block Options in the upper right corner of the block you wish to copy in the survey builder screen. Block Options --> Copy Block to Library.

Once the block is copied to your library you can copy it into future surveys (by default), or choose the option to make it a reference block to get the behavior you are looking for.

Here's the link to the support information with step-by-step details: -platform/survey-module/block-options/block-options-overview#SavingABlockYourLibrary

One time a group of kids worked really hard on a cozy reading fort, complete with a ball drop pathway running along the top of the wall. They they got all cozy inside and read picture books to each other. How wholesome is that?!

Because of the large number of attendees at these events, crowd control was an important skill. Kids arguing over blocks was common, and I recommend intervening by gathering everyone towards a common goal like building a huge tower or castle. You need at least 2 staff members to run this event safely, but ideally you would have 4. We often invited volunteers to help us at these events.

I ran weekly events called Tween Club, and one week it was Fort Nite themed. I divided the large programming room in half: gamers played on the big screen on one side, and groups of 10 played the Blue Blocks Fort Nite Challenge on the other side. Each round of the challenge took 5 minutes, and we swapped teams in and out.

This was a great challenge because they had to work together to build the work, and they had to strategize during the throwing part. Because of the time restraint, excitement levels were high and everyone was feeling very competitive.

Another idea is to allow patrons to add the Big Blue Blocks to a room rental. I had patrons asking me how much it would cost to borrow the blocks for a birthday party. This could be an opportunity to generate revenue while offering a birthday party package that is cheaper/more accessible than most other options.

When I open a drawing & draw items & then add them to the blocks libray they are only available the drawing Ive opened, when I open another drawing the blocks I drew & added are not in the second drawing. How do I have the blocks library common to all drawings

Put the resulting drawing file in some location that's in your Support File Search Path list in Options to make it easily available in other drawings, i.e. you can just give its name in the Insert command, and AutoCAD will find it. You can also put it somewhere else and Browse for it in Insert.

If you have already defined a Block in the current drawing, and want it to be available in other drawings, WBLOCK has an option to just take an existing Block definition and make a separate drawing file out of it. But you can also make a separate drawing file out of objects directly, similar to defining a regular Block but without making them into a Block definition in the current drawing first.

EDIT: And as Patchy said, you can always use ADCENTER [or its alias ADC] to get a Block [or Layer, or Text Style, or...] from inside any other drawing. It does take more navigating to get there than Inserting a drawing made with WBLOCK in a directly-accessible location, but it can make sense as a way of categorizing things. You could have all of a category of items as Blocks in one appropriately named drawing rather than as separate drawings in a similarly named folder. And you can build commands or menu items that will do the navigating for you for common categories. For instance, I have front elevations of all manner of kitchen cabinets and related pieces for interior elevations, as Blocks in a drawing called KITCHCAB, and I have a command called KC [only coincidentally the same as my initials] that opens up the ADC already in that drawing's Blocks list:

Forwarding Table allow you to check that the changes to blocks in a library do not break the model if you have saved the model with an older version of the library block. Forwarding tables help you to maintain compatibility of library blocks when you change the path or name of the library, or add, remove, or rename the parameters in the library block. For more information see, Create Custom Library.

Create a forwarding table entry for mapping old library blocks to new library blocks. When you open the model, the links to the old library block are updated automatically without losing data or functionality. Forwarding tables are executed when you open a model, close a model, or when you execute the add_block or replace_block command.

Specify the name of the old block in Old Block Path and the corresponding new block path in the New Block Path. If you do not know the path, select the block in the model and click Get gcb button. The path of the block is automatically populated in the respective columns.

The mapping of the old path to new path is created in the forwarding table. Now, open a model that contains links to the library. The links to the old library blocks in the model are updated automatically. You can use the search bar above the table to filter the table contents. You can sort the columns in ascending or descending order. You can also group columns by their values.

If the old block name is the same as new block name, the forwarding table populates the version number automatically. The initial value of the library version LibraryVersion is derived from the ModelVersion property of the library at the time the library link is created. Any subsequent updates to the library block will update the library version to match the model version of the library.

To handle this change we use a transformation function. A transformation function corrects the mismatch of parameters between the new and old library links, which ensures that the library links continue to work. You can define a transformation function using a .m function file on MATLAB path, then call the function in the Transformation Function column of the Forwarding Table.

A linked block contains an instance of the block parameters in the form of name-value arguments to instantiate the block. This instance data is passed to transformation function as InstanceData along with forwarding entry. This data is stored as struct fields.

When you create versions of a library block, parameters are added or removed from the InstanceData. In this example, the InstanceData before removal of the Gain parameter and after the addition of initial condition and delay length looks like this

If you rename a mask parameter, you must ensure that the existing MATLAB scripts that use the old parameter names, continues to work. To check compatibility, you can create an alias for a mask parameter name. An alias allows you to change the name of a mask parameter in a library block without having to recreate links to the block in existing models.

I have the same problem, but I'm new to programming and Code::Blocks, and I want to use the GDI32 library. How can I install it? I'm very confused because I can use the windows.h header, but some functions like TextOut aren't available.

The gdi32 library is already installed on your computer, few programs will run without it. Your compiler will (if installed properly) normally come with an import library, which is what the linker uses to make a binding between your program and the file in the system. (In the unlikely case that your compiler does not come with import libraries for the system libs, you will need to download the Microsoft Windows Platform SDK.)

This will reliably work with MinGW-gcc for all system libraries (it should work if you use any other compiler too, but I can't talk about things I've not tried). You can also write the library's full name, but writing libgdi32.a has no advantage over gdi32 other than being more type work.

If it does not work for some reason, you may have to provide a different name (for example the library is named gdi32.lib for MSVC).

At a guess, you used Code::Blocks to create a Console Application project. Such a project does not link in the GDI stuff, because console applications are generally not intended to do graphics, and TextOut is a graphics function. If you want to use the features of the GDI, you should create a Win32 Gui Project, which will be set up to link in the GDI for you.

Hello,

Open your blocks Folder, open the tab Library.

You can now drag your block to the library into the folder Mastercoppies.

If you need this function again, drag it from the library into your program, there will be a few questions like rename etc.

Attached pictures will show you.

Regards,

Marcjan

When you create your block in the program, can you drag it into your ladder and have it work like you want? If not, putting it into a library will not make any magic happen. The magic is all in the header where you create your inputs, outputs, static/temp/inout block tags.

A well done block will not rely on any external tags. Is your block working like this already? If so, just put it into your library. You can then zip up and email the block, or copy it to a network share for your coworkers to use in their own projects.

The library is a scaled down version of a project. You can drag preconfigured PLC and associated hardware to a library. You can drag blocks, tags, DBs, etc. into the library file. You can then drag them back out into your projects and use them.

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