CONTENT MANAGER

[kristinabhalter]

I am having a very difficult time with the content manager in a .dwt I am trying to create.  It says there are blocks in my drawing for files that I can't even find on my computer, and when I drag and drop a block from the content manager, it shows the changes I made in the Block Editor - but when I import the same block, with the same name, from the folder on my harddrive, where the block is saved, it tells me that the block attributes have changed, and I wind up with an older, different, unedited version of the same block I edited (and saved) with the block editor.  It's driving me nuts.  I am going to go out and buy a PC tomorrow and not use AutoCAD for Mac again.  Every time I think I have a leg up and I know what I am doing, I am thrown for a loop.  The MatchProperties command only sometimes works, it's just so unpredictable!  

[maxim_k]

Hi,

If you have a block in the drawing file "A" and you can see this block in Content palette - this mean that the block definition stored inside the drawing "A".

You can edit it in Block Editor and changes will apply to the all insertions of this block in the current drawing "A".

If you have a block with the same name in another file (or have DWG file with the name which matches the name of the block you have already in the first drawing "A") and then you want to insert this external block (or whole DWG file) to the drawing "A" from content palette or with INSERT command - AutoCAD should warn you with such message:

If you will choose "Redefine block" option - block definition and all its insertions in drawing "A" will be substituted with block contents of the "external" block you are trying to insert.

Maxim