Multi-view block - insertion point has shifted!? AA2017

[Anonymous]

I have an issue with an electrical symbol multi-view block (duplex receptacle), where the insertion point is a few feet away from where it should be - this only  occurs in one particular drawing.  Open a new, or different drawing, and the block inserts normally.  I've tried almost everything to move the insertion point back to where it would normally be, to no avail - any suggestions?  I'm not going to redraw the drawing, and I'll just work around this glitch, but it sure is bothersome. (using Autocad Architecture 2017)

[pendean · Accepted solution]

Your one single existing drawing had a bad definition of that same block already in it.

[Victoria.Studley · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

It sounds like either the Multi-View Block is corrupt in this particular drawing, or the Insertion Offsets have been adjusted.

You can adjust the Insertion Offsets as follows:

• Select the Multi-view Block.
• In the Properties palette, click Insertion Offsets to open the Multi-view Block Offsets dialog box.
• Adjust the X, Y, and Z offsets to 0.

If this doesn't work, you may be able to use BLOCKREPLACE to replace the block with a version where the insertion point is not separated from the rest of the block geometry.

If one or more of these posts helped answer your question, please click Accept Solution on the posts that helped you so others in the community can find them easily.

[Victoria.Studley · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

I'm just checking in again to see if you need more help with this. Did the suggestion I provided Wednesday work for you?

If so, please click Accept Solution on the posts that helped you so others in the community can find them easily.

[Anonymous]

the offsets, when I checked via your method, were set to 0,0,0, yet the insertion point was still far away from the multi-view block

[David_W_Koch]

If the "view block" (an ordinary AutoCAD block) that the Multi-View Block is displaying in the view where the insertion point is offset from its expected position already existed in the rogue drawing prior to adding the Multi-View Block, but that view block definition had a different insertion point than the one in the source file from which you are pulling the Multi-View Block definition, the definition in the file will be used, causing the graphics displayed to be offset from the Multi-View Block insertion point.

Placing the Multi-View Block in another file, that does not have that view block already defined will result in the view block definition from the source file being imported, and showing up correctly.

If you open your source file for the Multi-View Block definition and use the WBLOCK command to write the view block definition out to its own file, you can then go to the rogue drawing and use the INSERT command to redefine the view block definition to the expected definition.  That should bring back the graphics for that Multi-View Block to the correct orientation relative to the insertion point.  You will likely have to then relocate the Multi-View Blocks, if they were placed to get the graphics in the correct place with the offset block definition.