Can I Rotate Part of a Block

I have a block comprised of an electronic component (say, a resistor) and a
designation (R5). The designation is an attribute. Is it possible, without
exploding the block, to rotate the designation?

I am using ACAD LT 2005

 

A lisp routine called MVSETUP has a block rotation function built in, but I
think you need an enabler to run lisp...

 

Using grips you can rotate only the designator. Select the block to
highlight grips, then select the node for the designator, cycle through the
options to "Rotate" and have at it.

--
Patrick Hughes

Engineered Design Solutions
http://www.engds.com

Chronos: Time Logging for AutoCAD
visit http://www.engds.com/Products/Chronos/Chronos.html

 

Well, no that was wrong (at least in r14)

Try this:

attedit

Edit attributes one at a time? <Y>

Block name specification <*>:

Attribute tag specification <*>:

Attribute value specification <*>:
Select Attributes: 1 found
Select Attributes:

1 attributes selected.
Value/Position/Height/Angle/Style/Layer/Color/Next <N>: a

New rotation angle <0.00>:

--
Patrick Hughes

Engineered Design Solutions
http://www.engds.com

Chronos: Time Logging for AutoCAD
visit http://www.engds.com/Products/Chronos/Chronos.html

 

I suggest an application where after explode and rotating the one part
of the block, a new block is created and is added "rotated" in it's
name. The same problem occoured in earlier versions when you want to
unscale entities within a block to extract the measures added after
scaling a block , then to make sure the dimensions was not scaled back
to the original dimensions after explode , this rutine worked, it also
will wotk in this particular situation just saving the rotate
information and calculating that with the information of the part.