Monowills Stanchion Bolt Clash

[HarryHighpants]

Hi all, I get the same annoying 'clash' on all my Monowills stanchions:

There is a slot in the stanchion, but it doesn't go all the way through. As a result the bolt 'clashes' with it.

Is there any way to edit the standard out-of-the-box stanchions to fix the slot and avoid fake clashes in future?

[iwafb]

The clash is a bit annoying. My understanding is that it should've been fixed, but haven't tested in 2022...

In the meantime, you might be aware that the macro does not "access" a std library. Rather it creates the stanchion blocks on the fly. In that sense, you can't fix it as it's hard coded. You can, however, edit the block instance in the model and it will update all the related blocks.

Just type "bedit" and select the relevant post block. From there you can edit the slot and if you save it back to the drawing it will work on all current and future instances of the block.

[HarryHighpants]

Thanks for the reply.

I tried that but all I see in the block editor are two balls and nothing else ..

[iwafb · Accepted solution]

That can happen too. You can achieve the same result by creating a "write block" and re-inserting into the model...

[HarryHighpants]

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@iwafb wrote:

That can happen too. You can achieve the same result by creating a "write block" and re-inserting into the model...

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Not 100% sure what you meant by meant by a 'write block". I tried all sorts of things and in the end I had to create some handrail in a fresh model, edit the stanchion block in that model, rename the block, insert into the original model. Once there I did a block editor 'save as' to overwrite the actual stanchion. Not convoluted at all .. Thanks for the inspiration.

[iwafb]

Kind of what I was suggesting 😂

A write-block is basically what you get when you use the WB command. It generates an external file that contains the "block" objects. You just need to be careful as you can't have a block inside a file of the same name. ie block xyz cannot be contained within xyz.dwg

Slighly less work, is to copy/paste the staunchion into a new drawing. Explode the block. Edit the hole, save the dwg with the same name as the staunchion block (will have to purge the drawing first) and insert back into the original model... When you re-insert, you should get an option to redefine the existing blocks.