Block "NAME" is not found in the source drawing. (Tool Pallets)

[SuperCAD]

I'm in the process of making custom tool pallets for the numerous blocks we use, and I'm having trouble with one. When I go to add this block to the pallet (either by dragging and dropping or adding from the design center) I get a message saying that the block is not found in the source drawing.

 

I even went so far as to re-create the block in a new file and save it under a different name, and the same thing happens.

 

I tried doing a search on here and google, but nothing came up. So if anyone has a clue I'd appreciate it.

[wannabe]

Have a read of this month's "Michael's Corner". You should anyway .

[SuperCAD]

I just did, and unless I'm blind or missing something obvious, it had nothing to do with the question I asked.

[wannabe]

I possibly read the vault at the bottom of the page. Either way, it basically concluded that when you add a block to a tool pallet it makes a reference to the drawing it was copied from.

 

Does the drawing you copied it from still exist? Does it still have an identical definition for that block?

[SuperCAD]

The drawing that I created the block in was open, and saved, and all I did was clicked on the block to drag it over to the tool pallet. I've done the same routine for my other tool pallets, but this one just won't accept the block.

[wannabe]

Any chance you could post up some of the drawing?

[leeleeNM]

did you ever find a solution to this problem?

[SuperCAD]

Kind of. It turns out that whenever I make a block when I'm at work, that won't work for whatever reason, I try to create that same block on my computer at home. Then, I email the block to my work account, open it, and add it to my palette without a problem.

 

I've done this with blocks that I couldn't add to the palette, and I've also done this with dynamics blocks that would loose their dynamic abilities when I created them on my computer at work.

 

I have absolutely no idea of why this happens or why creating the block at home and then emailing it causes it to work each and every time. I'm just glad that I decided to try this because it was really getting on my nerves to open a drawing the next day, only to have all of my dynamic blocks converted to "dumb" blocks. Now I don't have that problem and my life is less stressful.