Blocks ---- issues

[zale_orcid]

2 major issues with blocks. I’m in v5 so please let me know if this is different in 6 anyone.

1. is there a way to prompt your block so you do not by accident press cancel or the dreaded “x” in the corner === and then lose like 5 hours of work, sometimes. I’ve grown into the workflow of every so often closing, saving… but I would love to set up a prompt for the “x” or the “cancel” button…

2. when I’m working in a block, I group things. I continue working in block with group, everything is great. then when I close out of group save, and go back into the block - the group no longer exists. It does not save group information… ???

[Brenda]

I tried to encourage a little more polish on the block manager.

V6: Making a Better Block Manager

I’ve done some posts with suggestions for a better block manager. In using Rhino v5 on a drawing with more than 200 different blocks, I have some additional suggestions, requests, and comments. 1.) We need an option to list blocks (or exclude) that are not made of other blocks. We need to know what parts to make or purchase before we even think about assembling them. In other words, which blocks are root blocks, and which ones are only assemblies of those blocks? We have “Top Level,” but we nee…

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

@zale_orcid

a way to prompt your block

Hello - I am not sure what this means - what command are you running? Can you give some context?

-Pascal

[zale_orcid]

Hi Pascal. I guess I THOUGHT there was a cancel option . But no, in the block edit - there is just an OK button and a HELP button. If you hide objects in your block and press OK you get a “prompt” basically if you want to keep those hidden objects or not - which is a bit confusing in the way it’s worded - this did take me some time to understand what was actually happening… I always just press NO now. BUT, if by accident I click on the X button to close out the blockedit dialog box, I lose everything. I work fast so sometimes I mistake the block edit as another dialog box or maybe i think it’s in another file. What I would love to see is a “save changes” ? if you click BY ACCIDENT on the X. maybe in the Options somewhere to “prompt” the user to save or not by closing out of the block edit?? I hope this makes sense. This happens to me at least once a week… sometimes I do this multiple times in a day because I’m rushed. etc.

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

Hello - got it - the basic wish is for clicking X to prompt to save changes, correct?

Would it be better/clearer not to have an X but have a Cancel button instead?

https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-51428

-Pascal

[zale_orcid]

YES that is the basic wish

Sure if you replace the HELP with CANCEL and include the Prompt Save Changes. That would make it cleaner. Having 3 buttons might be annoying. … I mean that help button is a bit annoying…

If you keep the X i think that should also have the save changes too… that way I’m not mistaking it for a layers panel or etc…

[zale_orcid]

Cool . thanks, Brenda. It’s been a while since I’ve been crazy about the block manager but #15, 16,12,19,20 are favorable. Especially volume counting suggestions… I’m not sure this has been done yet…