Frei Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Hello everyone, I've been trying to solve this problem for a while now but still couldn't find any solution, I know we can vI ain't sure if Autocad 2014 is capable of doing it, but I hope some of you could help me. In the image below, those half-hatched circles are smoke detectors. Problem: each smoke detector was once represented by a block, but now they're all exploded objects - yet the "Smoke Detector" layer remained, which still allows me to select them separately from the rest of the drawing. What I need to do is turn each of those devices into separated, yet equal blocks. In case this isn't possible, is there any better solution except having to readd the detectors one by one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frei Posted September 30, 2014 Author Share Posted September 30, 2014 Tl;dr: I need to turn every selected entity into single, equal blocks (each entity being a block). Does anyone knows if that's possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 I can not see image but if you have a single hatch then yes you could find all do a insert new block on new layer and just turn the old layer off. Pick the hatch with this (setq obj (entget (car (entsel)))) you will see lots of info but the dxf code 10's will match points on your object others dxf's will be scale etc Pots a dwg with exploded detector and a new block should be simple to put something together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JensiLehmanni Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 Has there been a more detailed solution since this very old reply? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombu Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 I preferred the original Explode icon which was a stick of dynamite rather than the current icon which implies that it simply disassembles as what it does to blocks is irreversible. Had an engineer explode every tree in a drawing once and I had to recreated the entire project from scratch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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