Drawings Act Like One Entity

I'm going through some files I got a while back from customers. Most of them when I open them and pass my cross hairs over the drawing, everything is highlighted like it's picking the entire drawing. I can explode and get rid of that but I don't think exploding is a good idea. I list one line and it picks the whole drawing like it's one entity. I can't post the file, it's too big and if I explode it and delete items to make it smaller to post, you won't see the problem. Thoughts?

Glenn

2009LT

it sounds like the drawing is a block or xref. what does the properies pallette say you have selected?

(when someone binds xrefs to send a dwg they come in as a block - this may be what you have)

the question is - what do you need to do? if exploding the dwg is a bad idea, surely you should not edit it at all?

if exploding works - ie turns it into a useable drawing, why not do that?

it sounds like the drawing is a block or xref. what does the properies pallette say you have selected?

(when someone binds xrefs to send a dwg they come in as a block - this may be what you have)

 

the question is - what do you need to do? if exploding the dwg is a bad idea, surely you should not edit it at all?

if exploding works - ie turns it into a useable drawing, why not do that?

In the properties window it picks out as a block reference. So I guess I have to explode the entire entity if I'm going to work on it. I clean out things on drawings I don't need. Furniture etc, so I can fit my telecommunications symbols in the cubicles, offices etc. I just don't want to explode all the blocks in the drawing. Makes more work at times.

I just had to explode the drawing twice so I could do my thing. The blocks I want to stay as blocks seem to be OK. So I'm alright, I just wondered why the drawing comes as one big block.

It could have been an Xref that was Bound to the drawing. When you Bind an Xref, it comes into the drawing as a block.

i think you are doing the right thing - so long as you have a copy of what you received!

as cad64 says, it most likely is like this because they bound some xrefs before they sent it to you.

It could have been an Xref that was Bound to the drawing. When you Bind an Xref, it comes into the drawing as a block.

Now that I think of it, this must be the case, because I get many drawings with x-ref's and many with them missing or not found.

I'm good to go, so thanks to you both for the reply's.

Glenn

Did you try right clicking and then open xref or block editor ?

Did you try right clicking and then open xref or block editor ?

Yes, it was a block so I exploded it. The first two explodes did not ruin the integrity of the other blocks. And yes, they did bind the x-ref. Thanks.