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I am black with more questions about blocks. I made a block and when I go insert block browse it works fine, but if I try to insert from the palette I created it says block references itself. Or I have to explode the block for it to work. What can I do to fix this problem? Please help. I have tried the purge command and its not working (if I am even using it correctly). thank you

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I am black with more questions about blocks. I made a block and when I go insert block browse it works fine, but if I try to insert from the palette I created it says block references itself. Or I have to explode the block for it to work. What can I do to fix this problem? Please help. I have tried the purge command and its not working (if I am even using it correctly). thank you

:lol: *ahem*.. What is this palette that you're talking about? You mean the tool palette?

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Your "block" is a .dwg file and inside this .dwg file is a block with the same name as the .dwg file. So open the .dwg file and explode and save and close the file. Now try again.

 

So in other words, your file may be called MOTOR.DWG and inside that file is a block called MOTOR. Open MOTOR.DWG and explode the block. This all assumes you aren't making dynamic blocks.

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Ok, I thought maybe you meant a tool bar. Have you tried making a macro command to insert the block and then putting the macro into the tool palette? You could make the macro something like

^C-insert;"Block Name";

and then just click that button and it will insert the block.

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