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Separate Blocks without Exploding

OmniCardoso — Thu, 04 May 2023 10:24:40 GMT

How do I separate Blocks after Flatshoting 2 or more objects, without exploding everything?

I've been having this issue for along time, and always wondered if it is possible to just separate both items in the same block without exploding everything.

Thanks

Re: Separate Blocks without Exploding

-didier- — Thu, 04 May 2023 10:28:00 GMT

Bonjour @OmniCardoso

I do not understand the question, can you submit a drawing on the forum, with examples before and after the manipulation ?

Amicalement

Re: Separate Blocks without Exploding

tramber — Thu, 04 May 2023 11:20:46 GMT

Hello,

Unfortunatly, Flashot does not treat groups or blocks as you'd like it does. Maybe you could REFEDIT and substract a part of the objects with the minus Refset manipulation ! A bit like liberating some objects of the one block you obtained after you're done...

Re: Separate Blocks without Exploding

OmniCardoso — Thu, 04 May 2023 13:24:19 GMT

Hello @-didier- , thanks for answering.

Basically I perform the Flatshot on 2 or more objects, and the point is to have the resulting block "splitable", meaning I would be able to slpit the block into 2 (one per object).

I would also like to add to my question, if it is possible to take a flatshot to only 1 object when there are more objects present in the model area.

Re: Separate Blocks without Exploding

tramber — Thu, 04 May 2023 13:32:06 GMT

No it's not ! Perform a WBLOCK without the option to make it a block. It will perform an export as a dwg of your single object(s) with the advantage of a point of view that remains the same from your source dwg.

Re: Separate Blocks without Exploding

AVCPlugins — Fri, 05 May 2023 01:35:07 GMT

It is not very clear what prevents you from taking two or more Flatshots from each object separately? If you don't need blocks at all, then you can use the more powerful FLT command from the AVC Flat plugin.

Re: Separate Blocks without Exploding

asif.iqbalBJDXY — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 10:45:12 GMT

I want to separate some objects from block without exploding the said block. Can anyone help me in this regard and share the command or method ?

Re: Separate Blocks without Exploding

cadffm — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 10:58:30 GMT

Command: RefEdit

(be careful about dynamic blocks)

Re: Separate Blocks without Exploding

asif.iqbalBJDXY — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:05:57 GMT

Thanks for prompt response & help dear

But in this command we can't separate the objects as this command does not allow copy or cut. So we can't separate the objects without exploding the block.

However, Block editor allows the copy and cut and objects can be separated easily via block editor without exploding block.

Betreff: Separate Blocks without Exploding

cadffm — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:21:23 GMT

1. Your way by BEDIT does delete(or copy) objects from this block to the clipboard.

Good way to Copy or Cut if you need these objects in clipboard., same way by refedit.

2. If you like to extract objects from your block and to transfer it to the modelspace, at the same place it displaying before,

the RefEdit is the right tool.

Sample: create a block with two circles,

insert 3 blockreference into your modelspace, you can see 6 circles.

Run refedit and remove one circle (not delete: remove from working set!), save changes.

You can see 4 circles, 3 by your blockreferences and the one you removed.

Re: Separate Blocks without Exploding

pendean — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:43:14 GMT

@asif.iqbalBJDXY There is no built-in tool to create a second block from a first block by just extracting content from inside a block, BUT you can get close to something like that if you installed Express Tools (not an option for LT users) then explored NCOPY command along with BEDIT or REFEDIT. That's why one of the responses was to purchase a 3rd arty addon that can do that.

Or just copy/paste your block into an empty file, rename the block, then BEDIT or REFEDIT it and the original block in the source files to erase what you no longer wish to keep. Honestly, you'd be finished by now doing just that.

HTH