topic Re: Inserting blocks at scale in AutoCAD Forum

Inserting blocks at scale

whitney_jeff — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:23:25 GMT

I have a dynamic block, sheet title, consisting of a line, several attributes and a circle. In the sheet title block itself, everything is the correct size for 1:1 paper space, and also in the block editor.

When I insert it in a drawing in paper space, scale factor 1, it shows up at about 12 times too big. Both files have insertion units set at inches. INSUNITS set at 0 or 1 makes no difference.

Any ideas?

Re: Inserting blocks at scale

imadHabash — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:40:55 GMT

Hi,

i suggest to check if your block is Annotative object. annotative object will behave different if the annotation scale ( status bar) are not 1/1 and it will follow the current scale.

Regards.

Re: Inserting blocks at scale

user181 — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:42:27 GMT

Is the block you are inserting into paper space a block that is within the same drawing or is it a separate drawing that you are inserting?

Re: Inserting blocks at scale

whitney_jeff — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 21:24:21 GMT

Thanks, it is not annotative.

Re: Inserting blocks at scale

whitney_jeff — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 21:28:45 GMT

separate drawing - dragging and dropping.

Block attached - bear in mind please that I did not create this block

Included the block and a drawing it was inserted into (no xrefs included)

Thanks for looking!

Re: Inserting blocks at scale

Darin.Green — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 11:47:57 GMT

@whitney_jeff

Copy (or WLOCK) the contents of the TITLE-SHEET to a new file then it'll work fine. You have a bad Drawing File...

Note, each item within model space has a duplicate on top of each other.

DO NOT USE THE SELECT ALL TOOL ->> Because there's more items in a background of the file also duplicate geometry...

Re: Inserting blocks at scale

whitney_jeff — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:16:07 GMT

Thank you so much Darin!

Works perfectly now!

Jeff

Re: Inserting blocks at scale

shannonbH2WBX — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:33:57 GMT

I am having this issue as we are switching to 2020.

My setup is working fine, but a coworker inserts a border mask and everthing is x12.

I have checked his Units, gone to Options-User Preferences and all his settings are the same as mine. These blocks all worked correctly before the change over. What are we missing?

Re: Inserting blocks at scale

shannonbH2WBX — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 21:58:39 GMT

Anyone?

Re: Inserting blocks at scale

whitney_jeff — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 22:10:02 GMT

You have checked insunits?

Re: Inserting blocks at scale

shannonbH2WBX — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:49:12 GMT

Yep, and all the above. I thought maybe it was something new with 2020.

Re: Inserting blocks at scale

whitney_jeff — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:45:47 GMT

As was suggested to me on the same topic, try wblocking the drawing from your computer/workstation.

If possible, use the * option (-wblock name *) where name is either a new name or the name of the current drawing. If you use the current drawing name and location answer yes, you want to overwrite.

HTH

Jeff

Re: Inserting blocks at scale

shannonbH2WBX — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 22:33:46 GMT

It must be a setting on his Autocad setup. If I open his dwg it works fine when I insert the block, I'm stymied, I've checked every setting mentioned here.