Adam Coates Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Hi All I am currently using Autocad 2018 LT and we use it for drawing event set ups using multiple pieces of equipment for Lighting, Sound, LED video set etc etc. I currently have a DWG that holds all or our stock blocks of these pieces of kit from which we can then take a room from a venue and drip them in. The problem I am having is that the file ends up starting as 11mb and can get very big very quickly. Is there a way to use an x ref to a template that I can then pull some of these block from when required rather than them being stored on the main drawing itself without having two or three templates open where they are stored? Cheers Ad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Curious as to whether or not the main drawing that holds all of your blocks has been cleaned up via such commands as Overkill, -Purge and Audit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Coates Posted February 18, 2019 Author Share Posted February 18, 2019 Hi ReMark Yes it has. Ad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 Sounds like you have tried copy and pasting items with two drawings open the template and the new dwg ? You can do some basic macros in LT so you could have a menu for bringing in the most commonly used blocks, you have to have the blocks though as a single dwg. If you have access to full Autocad/Briscad can be exported pretty easy with a lisp. You could group blocks in separate dwg's "tables.dwg" bring them all in delete what you dont want then purge blocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobDraw Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 You can use NCopy to get objects from an XREF. Have you tried Design Center? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 (edited) Some info Design centre https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-lt/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/AutoCAD-LT/files/GUID-B2BA9E9E-942F-4E01-89C9-DBA1AB9A2C6A-htm.html Also talks about Tool Palette worth looking into as well. https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-lt/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/AutoCAD-LT/files/GUID-6B20D7DF-447A-4A8D-8FF1-8339CF54FFBD-htm.html Edited February 19, 2019 by BIGAL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 I agree with the Design Center approach, but I think it's a bad idea to keep all your blocks in one dwg file. If anything were to happen to that file, you will lose all your blocks. It's just my opinion, but I think it's better to have a structured library of individual dwg's than just one drawing file containing all your blocks. Take a look at Bigal's link for Tool Palette's. This would be a good way to handle your blocks. You could build a custom tool palette that would allow you to drag and drop blocks into your drawing from the palette without needing to have Design Center open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobDraw Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 If I were to keep all my blocks in one file for easy access, you could be sure that I would have them all saved separately to a secure structured library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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