-MAPINSERTPLE command for Dynamic Scale Bar

[Darren Allen]

Pardon my ignorance, could someone assist with what to do next after -MAPINSERTPLE has been entered? The command line is asking for a block name, what and where do I find this block?

[cadtag]

The sample drawings in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014\Sample\Symbols\; "Map - Scale Bars.dwg" and "Map - North Arrows.dwg" are apparently hardwired into the ribbon interface for that command. I simply copied and modified one of the existing dynamic blocks in there to look like my company standard north arrow, and it works.

I haven't bothered playing with bar scales -- the corporate standard is a dynamic block already, and I don't see a need to tweark it.

[Tom Beauford]

Pardon my ignorance, could someone assist with what to do next after -MAPINSERTPLE has been entered? The command line is asking for a block name, what and where do I find this block?

See https://www.theswamp.org/index.php?t...0904#msg610904
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/civil...9970125#M19256
and http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=48049.0;all.

[Tom Beauford]

I've added drop-downs for custom North Arrows I created described at this link: https://beauford.altervista.org/Dynamic_Blocks.html
The macro example

^C^C^P(progn(startapp "explorer" (strcat "/n,/e," (vl-string-subst (strcat "Map" (chr 92) "Sample" (chr 92) "Symbols") "express" (vl-filename-directory (findfile "acetauto.lsp")))))(princ));

should open the folder the read only Blocks.dwg is in.

I recreated all the blocks to use Mtext with use drawing background color set to Fill color so it's readable over aerials using Standard as the Text Style overriding the fonts in the editor so they display correctly without adding extra Text Styles when they're inserted. You can download it from https://www.theswamp.org/index.php?t...0904#msg610904