SW2007 & Blocks

We have discovered a few things about blocks and SW2007.

1. It appears that you can no longer align them. In SW2006, you Ctrl
select two or more, and a RMB menu has the Align option. Not now.

2. The Insert Block icon was removed from the Annotations toolbar - I had
to put it back from the Blocks toolbar.

3. I had a macro that would not recognize the block any more. I was
looking for a type 93 (BlockInstance), and the block is now recognized as a
type 114 (SketchBlockInstance). I also had to use Set swSUBSKETCHINST =
SelMgr.GetSelectedObject6(i, -1), rather than Set swBlockInst =
SelMgr.GetSelectedObject4(i).

There's obviously been some changes in how SW handles blocks - I presume
it's the result of incorporating the sketch blocks. More investigation to
follow as I have a chance.

WT

 

Quick update - if your blocks have sketch entities in them, you can drag a
block and inference snap locate it. But, what if you don't have any sketch
entities in your block?

WT

 

I'm assuming that if you don't have sketch entities in a block you might
have annotations instead?

They also removed the setting for snapping when dragging the center or
corner of an annotation.

If you drag a block of annotations, it doesn't give inference lines,
like when dragging just a single annotation.

The new Group functionality still gives the inference lines, though. So
explode the block and make a group out of the annotations. It seems that
if you make a block out of a group and then explode the block, you do
not get the group back.

Hummm. Its always something.