Convert Attributes in a Block into Text with ExplodeBlockX

Block with Attributes

ExplodeBlockX is one of the new commands of ARES Commander. With this new feature, you can explode a block with attributes and convert attributes in the text.

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During a project, we sometimes use a block with attributes.

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ARES Commander 2015 allows us to edit these blocks without losing the content.

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Here, for example, there is a block with attributes.

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We can select the block and reposition the attributes.

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And we even have a grip that will allow us to reposition the block.

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We can also change the content of a block with attributes.

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Simply double click it.

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The attribute values appear with which we can make the changes we need.

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For example, the text that represents the date of the drawing

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It could, however, happen that we need to change the entities belonging to the block

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and not necessarily to the attribute.

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For example, if we wanted to make this part of the label have a lesser width.

Using the ‘Stretch’ Command

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If we intend to use a command like ‘Stretch’

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we only move the entire block. That way we cannot reduce the width of the entities

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But if we use ‘Explode’

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the block resolves to a lower level.

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Sure, the attributes lose the assigned values

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but in this case the entities are independent.

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If we now use the ‘Stretch’ command

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to reduce this width

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what happens? We have to re-create the block, insert, and rewrite all the data the label had.

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Since the values of the block, in this case, the attributes, have been lost.

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Let’s go back …

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Ares Commander 2015 offers a solution to change the shape of the block

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without altering the content of the attributes.

Using  ‘ExplodeBlockX’

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For this we have the new tool: ‘ExplodeBlockX’

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Select the block.

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The decomposition happens but the attributes are converted into text.

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which allows us to modify

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what once belonged to the block

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without losing data belonging to the attributes

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since now the attributes have become text.

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