Dynamic Blocks: Shared Apps Recognizing Anonymous Only

[CEHill]

Let me preface this message by saying that you will not see many here that are more enthusiastic about the use and potential time-savings inherent with dynamic blocks.

HISTORY
For quite some time (since a final project went belly-up over this topic when creating a programmed block insert redefinition routine during an otherwise excellent, online and live class in VB.NET for AutoCAD), the anonymous name - assigned whenever there is a change to the default state of the dynamic block - has been the bane of my AutoCAD block-using existence.

EXPORTING THE REAL NAME
Other apps appear only to (Bluebeam eXtreme, etc.) recognize the anonymous name when the dynamic block's effective name I desired at all times.

SUGGESTIONS FOR EFFECTIVE RELIEF
Can someone provide some relief; taking the pain out of what is an ever-present 'bane': those ubiquitous and annoying anonymous block names?

I feel that there is a solution.

[LSElite]

I agree it is a pain.
The way I work around this is selecting by layer name and then using unique layer names for each dynamic block.
It is not ideal but I find it to be compatible with both VBA and Lisp.
I hope this helps.

[CEHill]

Wow, this effort is a big sacrifice on your part! As I am attempting to enforce layer naming structure here, the unique block name as a layer name is currently not the best option.

Due to this one big SNAFU in the creation of this otherwise stellar functionality, the potential advantages of dynamic blocks are really diminished in my eyes:

I intensely dislike these anonymous names!

[Opie]

The block's Effective Name is provided in the insert reference to the block definition. Unfortunately, one cannot provide a selection filter for this effective name.

You might suggest to Autodesk to improve their printer driver for PDF creation to include the desired output. That's what I am understanding your problem to be. However, if it is a third party print driver, you would need to contact the third party to explore a solution.