Block not showing in Viewport

[GegH1]

Can anyone tell me why a standard block, created by autodesk (a dynamic arrow with gradiated hatch to be exact), shows in model space but not in the viewport.
It's not on a frozen layer or non print layer.
i am using Autocad LT 2009

[Anonymous]

which block? name and location...

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[hwalker]

Have you checked that the layer isn't frozen for that viewport only. Double click in the viewport, call up the layer manager and see if the snowflake is there. Also create a new viewport. Does the block appear in that viewport?

[GegH1]

Arrows Imperial & Arrows Metric.
I suspect it has something to do with Annotative Scale.

[GegH1]

All tried.
14 years experience, 6 years teaching others. All the basics have been tried. This has me stumped

[Anonymous]

Works fine. Post your DWG file with this problem (or better yet, create it
in a new file, if it's still there, post this 'new' file).

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[GegH1]

I got it to work by creating a new vport.
We have company titleblocks with vports, if i delete the vport and recreate it they show up.
when i set the scale of the vport to 1:500 for example, the block sometimes disappears.
It's a glitch that i seem to have overcome this time (Not quite knowing how), if it happens again i will re-post.

[essegee]

having same problem, but with one of my created blocks. they refuse to show in paper space. am placing them on a new layer. created on layer 0 and then place on my new layer. file is a customer file that i am making mods to.

not a teacher but have used acad for 10 yrs or more.

am currently using acad 2007 LT.

any help appreciated.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

that layer is turned off or frozen inside the viewport perhaps.

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[essegee]

that is a new one to me. i thought when you trun on/off a layer it was global, whether on model tab, model space thru a layout tab, or paper space.

thanks. that did the trick.

[GegH1]

I have noticed that some of the Acad blocks have Annotative scale.
If your viewport is too large and the and the symbol is in model space, it will dissapear at certain scales.
This is what was happening with my drawing. The arrows seem to have been designed for paperspace.

[Sharwood2010]

The Architect at my work had the same problem with this today and i figured it out just by fluke

type in ANNOALLVISIBLE. it should auto fill set it from 0  to 1 and you should be good to go. btw you need to be in paper space to do this and you need to do it to every layout.

hope this helps

Sharwood

[dhamech · Accepted solution]

1) Go to paper space

2) Double click inside the viewport

3) Type "annoallvisible" and modify the value as 1(one) from 0 (zero)

Try it...

[Charles_Shade]

Welcome to the Autodesk Forums!

Thanks for chiming in dhamech!

[jeroennl2]

I had the same problem recently. A block i created from scratch for a window did not show up in paper space. All viewport layers were set to on and not frozen. I am using AutoCAD 2015. It turns out when you create a block, one of the property settings is "ANNOTATIVE" (YES/NO). The default settign is YES. using teh block editor, i changed this setting to NO, and it fixed teh problem. It has something to do with the annotative scale settings and the block not showing properly in your paper space viewport when this setting is turned on.

[selern72]

@dhamech / Thank you. I appreciate it!

[nick]

"annoallvisible" worked for me. 

(Why does this even exist and why is it off by default! )

[shonamckenna]

@dhamech where have you been all my life!!!  thank you for that annoallvisible tip!!!  I've been editing block attributes for years, and all i had to do was that!!!  Thank you so much!!!

where do I send chocolates and flowers!!  🙂

Thanks, Shona

[rizwanaziz]

THANKS THIS ONE HELPED ME 

[martin.elliott]

Did not work for me. I am still having the problem. I have tried inserting the block in both model and paper space. It is visible on the screen bit not on plot or plot preview. I have tried all of the tricks mention and before you say it, no...my layer is nor off or frozen and is set for plot on. Please help anyone.