In part 1, we talked about what blocks are, why and when you should them, and we touched on dynamic blocks. Let’s move on and cover a few more things. When you are creating or defining a block, you can…
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AutoCAD Blocks have been around as long as AutoCAD. What is a block? An AutoCAD block is a named collection of geometry, annotation, and essentially anything graphical you can create, including other blocks – bound together into a single unit….
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Recently we ran into an issue with our title blocks. We had a company logo that had originally been created as an AutoCAD block using hatch, plines and splines. The .DWG was linked into our Revit title blocks and all…
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This is related to the previous post from last week on not being able to explode a block. Suppose your reason for exploding the block is that you simply want to copy some geometry or text from within the block….
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Have you ever tried to explode a block, but it failed to explode? Starting in AutoCAD 2006, AutoCAD includes an option to prevent blocks from being exploded, as shown here. If you try to explode a block that has been…
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