redefinig blocks

Bring a wblock into the drawing and you have a block

If you edit the wblock and bring it into the drawing again it will revert back to the original. However, there is a setting where all the blocks will be updated as the edited wblock is brought into the drawing.

What is this setting?

If I understand you correctly, you have a block (in its own DWG), and have inserted it into your active drawing. You went back into the block's DWG to edit, and want to insert it back into your active drawing to be updated?

Try this:

(command "._-insert" "[color=blue]<BlockName>[/color]=[color=red]<BlockName>[/color]")

You can navigate to the drawing "wblock" in DesignCenter, right click, redefine. See Michael's corner for this month for this exact thing.

If you use the insert command and navigate to the "wblock" you will be asked if you want to update the block, answer yes. Or drag and drop and answer yes when asked.

Also see Renderman's response.

Thanks, Rkent... I always forget to mention DesignCenter (I don't use it). :wink:

Thank you both as I want to learn both. In some situations I even perfer the old way of doing things. If I have lots of the same blocks to change (such as a title block that needs to be changed on existing drawings), I'd like to write a lisp routine.

(command "._-insert" "[color=blue]<a3 sheet>[/color]=[color=red]<[/color][color=blue]a3 sheet[/color][color=red]>[/color]")

Thank you both as I want to learn both. In some situations I even perfer the old way of doing things. If I have lots of the same blocks to change (such as a title block that needs to be changed on existing drawings), I'd like to write a lisp routine.

 

(command "._-insert" "[color=blue]<a3 sheet>[/color]=[color=red]<[/color][color=blue]a3 sheet[/color][color=red]>[/color]")

... Be sure to remove the "" symbols, unless they are actually part of your block's name. :wink: