Default Library Location

[hanchris]

We have specific requirements for size and spacing of our components; but for the most part our components are the same as the default libraries. I was hoping to just go in and modify the size. I am not really touching any of the other attributes, other then moving them in proportions to where they were. This includes the connection variable.

I checked the .Dat file and found there is no address, only the description and block name, so I assumed the location was determined by the first library directory found under Tools>>Options>>Support Files. I was wrong.

So isn't there a way you can modify existing block files, in the libraries and have the changes reflect in the default library? How does AutoCAD determine that location since it is not through the .Dat file or Support Files?

Thanks.

[hanchris]

I found the Help file that states by default the library is located in /Program Files/Autodesk/Acade {release#}/libs/jic125; but there is no library on my local drive.

There has to be a pointer somewhere in AutoCAD that I am not finding. Where else would the pointer be?

Thanks again.

[hanchris]

Fixed it.

I got to remember to "purge" since I always assume when you grab a new component from the menu it is taken from the library; but it looks in the drawing first.

[Anonymous]

You can use the update block feature in the future and AcadE will replace
all old blocks with the new version.

wrote in message news:5800524@discussion.autodesk.com...
Fixed it.

I got to remember to "purge" since I always assume when you grab a new
component from the menu it is taken from the library; but it looks in the
drawing first.