Substitute block properties from one file to another

[maurot.ferrarese]

I have a series of files with the same blocks names but I had to edit some of these blocks properties, lineweight, layer, etc. I tried to insert the corrected edited block from one file to the other with the same block names with Design Center, but some block properties remain as the destination file, and not like the origin file where I made all the corrections. Block units remains how it is in the destination file, for example.

Is there a way to completly overwrite the block?

[pendean]

Nested blocks are not replaced with the tools you've used: is that your issue, you have a block inside a block?

[maurot.ferrarese]

Not exactly. I have the same blocks in diferent files, made out only with lines and sometimes text attributes. The name of the block in all files are the same.

[rwrightWMDSY]

Have you tried setting VISRETAIN to 0 before you insert the new drawing?

[David_W_Koch]

I am not able to replicate what you describe when redefining the block (not just inserting) from DesignCenter.  The only change that was not immediately applied was to attributes, and that is to be expected.  Using the ATTSYNC command pushed the changes to the existing attributes.

Can you post two example drawings (target and source) - preferably with just one block definition in each - where redefining the block definition in the target via DesignCenter from the block definition in the source does not completely redefine the block in the target, so we can see if we get the same results?

[David_W_Koch]

I re-read your post more closely, and in a second test, redefined the block units in the source file from inches to feet.  The units in the block definition in the target file were updated to feet.  Existing instances of the block did not change size - the X-, Y-, and Z-scale factors changed from 1.00000 to 0.08333.