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    Through dumb luck and never giving up I stumbled onto a way to have lots of visibility states within a dynamic block. I am hoping I can attach the first block I did this to so it can be downloaded and people can use it to create their own. What I had to do was create multiple types of weld symbols with different extra information. I created the symbol in the exact size and shape that I wanted it to display when placed into a drawing. Then in a dynamic block I created linear parameters for each of the pieces I wanted to control how they displayed. I then assigned the SCALE action to each of those parameters. In the properties I made the value set a LIST and I gave the list 2 values. One was the true length of .25 inches and the other was .00025. With the grip pulled out it was .25 long and at the other value in the list it was now only .0025 inches long. Zoom in and you can see it but when you measure it is only .0025 tall. If you are plotting with a line weight of .007 this is not smaller than half your line with so it won't show when you plot it. Talk about weird idea and dumb luck. Everyone I have shown this too loves it. It is just so simple to do. If you had larger objects that you wanted to do you would just change the list value to an even smaller number when scaled down so it is less than the default width of the line you are printing or associating it with. I made several of these each with different types of welds and placed them on a tool palette. Then I got to thinking, I could put all 5 of these in one block and make each one of them their own grip to pull out and display. Next to each of the grips I placed text that said what weld type it was and this text was placed on a NO PLOT layer so it doesn't hurt anything just don't make it really big. I see that I can make an attachment so I am attaching the block. Use it if you need weld symbols or learn from it to create your own. I usually place my dynamic blocks in another dwg file and add EXP to the end of the name to mean EXPLODE. When inserted from a tool palette it is exploded and then you can manipulate it. I do this so if I want to check or edit it doesn't open in block edit mode, just my preference. If you download it just select it and look at all the grips. Pull in the direction they point until you see what the symbol looks like. My apologies for the long description but this is different and I thought a decent description would help.
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