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[Barty]

I'm teaching myself ACAD and have been updating and editing existing civil and mechanical engineering drawings so that they might be used for new applications. I need to remove certain company logos from the border of the updated drawings and insert logos relevant to the new applications. If I double click the border and hit delete I lose the complete border. How do I remove only ceratin elements?

[Cymro]

The borders could be blocks or xrefs.
You may have to explode the blocks to delete the logos.

[Cad64]

If it is a block or xref, you don't have to explode it to edit it's contents. Just use the REFEDIT command to edit the block or xref in place. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...linkID=2475176

[hendie]

I'm teaching myself ACAD and have been updating and editing existing civil and mechanical engineering drawings so that they might be used for new applications. I need to remove certain company logos from the border of the updated drawings and insert logos relevant to the new applications. If I double click the border and hit delete I lose the complete border. How do I remove only ceratin elements?

excuse me but aren't you breaking copyright rules here ?
It would apppear that what you are doing is illegal

[Barty]

Thank you Cymro and CAD64 - that was excellent, I've achieved what I wanted.
Hendie - There's nothing illegal in what I'm doing. My company commissioned a series of ACAD drawings of a standard (patented) system that I developed. We subsequently modify the proforma series to yield site specific drawings. I therefore need to be able to remove and replace logos.

[Strix]

If the border is a real drawing border (block) with editable attributes, the correct way to go about it is to find the drawing file for the border itself, edit that file, save it as a new file/block, delete the whole thing from the drawing you're working on, insert the new border, edit the attributes so that it has the correct info in the correct boxes again

[dbroada]

If the border is a real drawing border (block) with editable attributes, the correct way to go about it is to find the drawing file for the border itself, edit that file, save it as a new file/block, delete the whole thing from the drawing you're working on, insert the new border, edit the attributes so that it has the correct info in the correct boxes again

thats one way but you don't need to delete the block from the current drawing. When you insert the new block accept the redefine and escape the insert point. If you have added attributes you can then ATTSYNC the block to get them displayed.

Of course rather than changing the original file you can REFEDIT the one in the drawing and then WBLOCK it to overwrite the original ready for the next drawing.

[Strix]

I was working on the assumption that the original needed to be preserved for other drawings so couldn't have the same block name/number .... but I didn't know you could use that method dbroada

[happyunited]

excuse me but aren't you breaking copyright rules here ?
It would apppear that what you are doing is illegal

oh do give over

[dbroada]

I was working on the assumption that the original needed to be preserved for other drawings so couldn't have the same block name/number .... but I didn't know you could use that method dbroada

in which case you can do it by one of the 2 following methods...

RENAME your existing block in the drawing to the name of your new block then follow above

OR using the command line

-INSERT
OldBlockName=NewBlockName

accept the redefine and follow above.

The second method leaves the original block name though so now is the time to rename that one!