block attribute question

[bleeargh]

I am a freelance AutoCAD drafter. One of my clients is an electrical engineer. I created a bunch of light fixtures for him to be inserted as blocks in any future project he may have. I typically put my blocks on the zero layer and purge everything in the source dwg so that the block will take on the characteristics of whatever layer the block happens to be put under in any given project. We hit snag, however, when one of his consultants needed to be able to freeze a particular entity in some of the blocks. So I went into the source dwg and modified this entity by applying a layer to it so that it could be frozen. We then inserted the modified block into the project drawing under the same former block name and we got the typical dialogue box that says the block already exists in the drawing do you want to redefine it. We said yes and all the blocks in the drawing changed accordingly. Here's the problem. Even though the redefined blocks in the project dwg have the "freezable" attribute. The attribute does not freeze or turn on or off in the layer control. However, any of the new modified blocks that I insert after the fact behave correctly in the layer control. It's only the old one that we created and redefined that will not behave correctly. Why is this? BTW, we are running AutoCAD 2005.

[Geordie]

Have you tried ATTSYNC ?

[bleeargh]

Nope. I'll give it a try. Thanks for the response. I'll let you know what happens.

[bleeargh]

That did it. Thanks.

[JessB]

You can also use Block Attribute Manager... BATTMAN

[Methuselah]

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[JessB]

Dunna dunna dunna dunna BATTMAN!!!

huh? meaning?

[Methuselah]

Dunna dunna dunna dunna BATTMAN!!!

huh? meaning?

Do you live out in South Africa or somethin? Maybe you should get out more... go see a movie or somethin...