Just another little tip, You can right click items and go to Object Visibility and select Show for all States or Hide for all States. Way easier than having to go through every visibility state and turning them on/off
Please please please somebody point me in the right direction. I need to do exactly this, but with 4 sides of my block able to turn on and off independently. Does that mean I need to set up each "move" parameter with 8 "lengths" each, with a total of 32 "sizes", and then instead of a double lookup, I would need an octo-lookup??? Or do I just need two "sizes" for each side (on and off) and then a 64-lookup parameter to control the whole block? Is there a video that shows how to do this?
The latter is closer; each length parameter needs as many options as that associated visibility set, so just 2 for each "on/off." The lookups stay as a pair, but the one with lengths needs every possible combination, so 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 16 lines in that lookup, with associated 16 actual visibility states.
This is great! I am currently working on something similar and I found this video to be very helpful, but now I'm stuck. When I delete the block and drop it in a new window my items are showing and listed correctly in both Lookups... but my items are not switching. They seem to be stuck on the first visibility status. Mind you, I am adding more items that you have in this video. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
I'm not sure entirely I follow what exactly you mean by "drop it in a new window," as that could refer to several different actions. My general advice when working on any blocks though is to delete all copies, PURGE them from the drawing, and re-insert if changes don't seem to show up correctly. Hope that helps! (If not, feel free to head to the AutoCAD sub-reddit and we can go further into depth on whatever is happening.)
Any kind of advanced techniques like this would be awesome (dynamic block related or otherwise)! There's lots of info out there to do basic stuff but this video is really handy. I'm going to try to use it for a weld symbol block (toggle off/on things like field weld flag, all around, tail note, etc. Might get complex but I think it would be better than having a huge list of multiple options in one visibility state to choose from. Thanks again for sharing this! :)
