Block Head

Guess, I don't know as much as I thought. I have created a very simple block within a drawing. It's nothing but a circle with some centerline crosshairs through it. I need to use this block many times in this drawing. But when I try to insert it and then click on the point to place it, the block either ends up at 0,0 or somewhere far away from where I wanted to place it. I have tried it several ways and I guess I'm just a block head for not getting it.

Guess, I don't know as much as I thought. I have created a very simple block within a drawing. It's nothing but a circle with some centerline crosshairs through it. I need to use this block many times in this drawing. But when I try to insert it and then click on the point to place it, the block either ends up at 0,0 or somewhere far away from where I wanted to place it. I have tried it several ways and I guess I'm just a block head for not getting it.

Open a new drawing and try inserting the block. Does it work the way you expect? Maybe post the block here for others to take a look at also.

Where is the insertion point for the block? What method are you using to insert the block?

Put an insertion point in the block definition.

Go back into the block editor and select insertion point from your parameters pallet,(is that the Amurican spelling) and then place it where you would like it.

You need an object to snap them things to. If you have it set to 0,0, it will either insert there, or try to track to the nearest snap based on your cursor position.

If you don't want it directly attached to another object, then polar track it off of the nearest snap to where you want it, or give it a distance from a snap to land.

When you do an insert if the insert dialouge box is coming up make sure you tick the insert point in dwg top left else it is set as 0,0,0 as default, even if you use _insert it still looks at the default user settings

Block creation can be a little tricky. If you create a block from within a drawing it will always ask for a base point. If you simply select a point on the existing geometry that ends up of course being the insertion base point. Now lets say that you decide to wblock out the block. If you were to now open the new drawing and examine the INSBASE variable you will see that it corresponds to the point in space that you had picked and you geometry is out there in space. Complicating things is what was the UCS set at when you initially created the block?

I've gotten into the habit (and it has never failed me) when I create a block I set the ucs to world, I move or copy the geometry to where I want it in relation to 0,0,0 and then create the block with the 0,0,0 base point. This way if I ever wblock out that block the INSBASE variable remains at 0,0,0.

There are special occasions when I need to do some tricky things that I modify my routine.