Blocks library

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:11:15 GMT

When I open a drawing & draw items & then add them to the blocks libray they are only available the drawing Ive opened, when I open another drawing the blocks I drew & added are not in the second drawing. How do I have the blocks library common to all drawings

Thanks

Tess

Re: Blocks library

Patchy — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:20:54 GMT

WBLOCK instead of BLOCK ; or go to ADCENTER and grab them.

Re: Blocks library

Kent1Cooper — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:30:59 GMT

WBLOCK

Put the resulting drawing file in some location that's in your Support File Search Path list in Options to make it easily available in other drawings, i.e. you can just give its name in the Insert command, and AutoCAD will find it. You can also put it somewhere else and Browse for it in Insert.

If you have already defined a Block in the current drawing, and want it to be available in other drawings, WBLOCK has an option to just take an existing Block definition and make a separate drawing file out of it. But you can also make a separate drawing file out of objects directly, similar to defining a regular Block but without making them into a Block definition in the current drawing first.

EDIT: And as Patchy said, you can always use ADCENTER [or its alias ADC] to get a Block [or Layer, or Text Style, or...] from inside any other drawing. It does take more navigating to get there than Inserting a drawing made with WBLOCK in a directly-accessible location, but it can make sense as a way of categorizing things. You could have all of a category of items as Blocks in one appropriately named drawing rather than as separate drawings in a similarly named folder. And you can build commands or menu items that will do the navigating for you for common categories. For instance, I have front elevations of all manner of kitchen cabinets and related pieces for interior elevations, as Blocks in a drawing called KITCHCAB, and I have a command called KC [only coincidentally the same as my initials] that opens up the ADC already in that drawing's Blocks list:

;; KitchCab.lsp [command name: KC]
;; to bring up Design Center with list of Blocks in KITCHCAB.dwg
(defun C:KC ()
(command "adcenter" "adcnavigate" "K😕My/File/Path/KITCHCAB.dwg/Blocks")
); end defun

Re: Blocks library

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:56:13 GMT

Thanks for the reply KC & Patchy

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