AutoCAD P&ID

[#1]

Hi Everyone,

I have a drawing with several symbols that serve as a caption.

For example in the upper right corner of the drawing, I show some special symbols with a description of them or some line types with their respective explanation.

Unfortunately, these symbols appear in the datamanger, since I added them via die tool palette and they are PID symbols.

I tried to add the caption to the *.dwt (drawing template), but you cannot add pid symbols there. (I produce a crash everythime I try...)

Is there an easy work around, to not show certain objects in the datamanager?

In a way, I would like to make some objects "stupid"

Best regards!

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Explode them.  

[#3]

Thanks for the trick! Sometimes it can be so easy!

For those you read this: I had to type "._explode" in order to make the explode command work...else I got "unknown command"

Exploding blocks works great here, but I can't explode my pipes (mostly multilines/slines).

I tried with "pedit" but that doesn't work since mine are Slines.

I also tried with "flatten", but my colors will be lost if I use this command.

Do you have the trick for this one, too?

Thanks!

[#4]

blocking those objects (sline as well) will also exclude them from the data manager. But u'll have problem editing the block later because editing P&ID objects in block editor is not supported.