When you update geometry or other items embedded within a block for a title block (Drawing template), how do you get this to update in a project? I've tried using swap/update block under the schematic ribbon with no luck there. I would like to avoid creating all new sheets for my entire project and have to wblock every sheet.
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Hi there,
The Swap Block should do what you are asking for. Did you select Project Wide when you used the tool? Can you post a screen shot of the Swap Block settings you are using? And just a thought from past experiences, if this is a project you have been given to work on, meaning you did not create all the drawings, is there any chance the title blocks look the same but have different tags?
Good luck
You can also do this via a script, If you've just modified the graphics, and haven't moved the attributes around.
-INSERT TitleBlock=C:\T\TitleBlock.dwg Y 0,0 1 1 ERASE LAST
Here's a video showing the process:
I've tried doing this and it doesn't update the title block. Our title blocks are set up as DWT's and the geometry itself and attributes are part of a block. The attributes update fine. But the geometry and Mtext doesn't update.
Thanks for the video, unfortunately we are using title blocks as DWT's so we can do project wide title block updates of attributes. So the insert block method will only allow DWGs and DXFs.
Hi again,
I am a little unclear as to how you are trying to run the swap/update. If you are selecting the title block in a drawing/project and then selecting the file to update with as the dwt file, I have never tried that. If that is what you are doing, what do you suppose will happen if you open the dwt file you want to update with, Save As a .DWG file and us that for the Swap/Update source?
Good luck
Can you be very specific as to what information you are looking for. As the nature of my industry I may have to redact certain information.
Hi again,
I am just guessing but Jim may be suspect that your dwt file may have been set up with nested blocks. Which may explain why some pieces of the title block update but other pieces are a block inside the title block so ACE just passes over them without updating. Just a thought.
Good luck
One of the images is the DWT before exploding the block. The other is the DWT with the block exploded.
The swap/update block function will ONLY work to swap/update BLOCKS. A dwt-file is not a block, but a drawing template, that CONTAINS blocks.
For that function to work, you must open your dwt-file and use the WBLOCK command to export your existing title block to a DWG-file. Reference that DWG-file when you try to swap/update it.
If you have a look at the video, you can see that I'm actually doing exactly that, "WBLOCKING" the title block to an external file.
Thanks this did work. One recommendation is if you reuse this video update it to include exploding the block once to allow attributes to be editable again. I figured that was what I forgot to do but it works now after exploding it once.
Thanks
After doing this a couple times I noticed that when I insert the wblock it's stripping mtext out of it. Not sure why it's doing this.
I just checked and it is Mtext and not an attribute. I ended up having to check to see if there were extra blocks that were unused and purged them. That has helped along with creating useful block names and wblock names. So I think I figured it out now.
Thanks,
B
When you create a title block, you should end up with a basic dwg showing all the attributes.
This basic dwg is then inserted as a block into a totally blank dwg which is then saved as your template.
When updating an existing dwg with a new/edited title block, you use the Swap/Update tool to swap or update the title block but you HAVE TO select the basic dwg of the title block and not the template.
If you use the template for the update, you will have to go back and explode one level of the title block to get everything to work, as you have found out.
Regards Brad
Icemanau (NNTP handle: Brad Coleman
AutoCAD Electrical User and IT Hardware Support