gofindsam Posted January 4, 2009 Posted January 4, 2009 Hello CADders, I hope you all had a great Holiday Season! I am struggling trying to figure out how to resolve this issue I am having. I am working with a vendor drawing. There are symbols such as pump, reducer, and many different types of valves on the vendors drawing. The symbols on the vendor is not what our standard symbols look like. I need to update all the symbols. Every time I insert a block from the tool pallete, it does not ask me if I want to redefine the block. It uses the vendors block automatically. Can you please tell me how to turn on the settings in order to ask me if I want to redefine the block? Thanks in advance for your help! Quote
dbroada Posted January 4, 2009 Posted January 4, 2009 I don't think you can with a tool palette. Either use the design centre (don't know how to set it to redefine but I know it can) or use the INSERT command. Quote
ReMark Posted January 4, 2009 Posted January 4, 2009 Command entry: attredef. Redefines a block and updates associated attributes. Is this what you are referring to Dave? Quote
gofindsam Posted January 4, 2009 Author Posted January 4, 2009 ReMark, Attredef is what I had to use, however, in the past, I remember that I never had to type Attredef because I used to be able to insert a block from the tool pallete and it automatically asked if I wanted to redefine the block. Now that option disappeared. Do you know what I am talking about? Quote
dbroada Posted January 4, 2009 Posted January 4, 2009 I've only been using palettes a little while and have never seen an option to redefine the block definition,. If I have to redefine blocks I always use the -INSERT option. I'll have to investigate ATTREDEF as I've never used that either. Quote
dbroada Posted January 5, 2009 Posted January 5, 2009 having looked into attredef it is not suitable for what I do. Here is my method to redefine a block called "Fred" currently in the drawing to a different one defined in an external file. If the external file is in a pathed folder -INSERT Fred= reply YES to screen prompt but ESC after accepting the redefine. If the block is not in a pathed folder use the INSERT command and navigate to the new file. Again accept the redefine and esc before placing the new block. If I have a lot to do and I script the change which will preclude the use of esc I place one instance of the block and ERASE L to delete the last entry. If the new block has attributes either BATTMAN, ATTSYNC or maybe ATTREDEF to re-sync all the attributes. Quote
gofindsam Posted January 5, 2009 Author Posted January 5, 2009 AutoCAD does not ask if I want to redefine the block. How do I setup AutoCAD to ask me if I want to redefine the block? Quote
dbroada Posted January 5, 2009 Posted January 5, 2009 if the block (file) you are inserting has the same name you should automatically be asked if you want to redefine. I don't know a way of supressing this prompt. If however the drawing you received has blocks with a different name you can either use -INSERT theirBlockName=myBlockName or use the RENAME command to change the name of their blocks to suit your standards. if you use the theirBlockName=myBlockName approach you will be left with their symbol names but your definitions. Quote
mshearer Posted January 5, 2009 Posted January 5, 2009 Would blockreplace not get the job done? Quote
dbroada Posted January 5, 2009 Posted January 5, 2009 Would blockreplace not get the job done?possibly but I think it is an express tool so may not be installed on all machines - besides, my way works from version 10 on. Quote
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