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Trouble importing multiple acad drawings to a master acad

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:12:34 GMT

So I have multiple drawings exported to dwg from vectorworks.

When i try to import them into a master acad drawing, it seems that some objects share a block reference and they take the properties of the objects first imported.

Is it possible to somehow make each block have a unique id before importing, without selecting each one individually?

Re: Trouble importing multiple acad drawings to a master acad

Patchy — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:21:10 GMT

Open the dwg to be imported, rename the blocks.

Re: Trouble importing multiple acad drawings to a master acad

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:25:52 GMT

each of the dwgs has hundreds of blocks.

as mentioned in the original post, i need a solution that does not require me to select each one individually.

Re: Trouble importing multiple acad drawings to a master acad

Patchy — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:31:34 GMT

Search, there are solutions to rename existing blocks.

Use * to select all blocks.

Then add any letter or number in front of the blocks.

Re: Trouble importing multiple acad drawings to a master acad

pendean — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:41:29 GMT

Which DWG file has the blocks that are more important/accurate/you wish to keep?
That's the one all the others are "inserted" into: yes, you might have to flip your methodology to work with AutoCAD instead of fighting it.

Reminder: AutoCAD rule #1, content already in the file will replace identically named content from an imported file. This rule never changes. Ever.

HTH

Re: Trouble importing multiple acad drawings to a master acad

maratovich — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:16:31 GMT

Use this - AutoImportCAD

There is automatic rename on paste