Duplicate definition of block....ignored

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I have tried to PURGE, AUDIT and -EXPORTTOAUTOCAD, but I still cannot copy and paste. I get an error: "Duplicate definition of block....ignored."

Here is a link to the files I want copy and paste on other drawings.

I'm stuck, need help!

All the best

[neaton]

It isn't an error message it is an informational message. Your copy/paste objects are being inserted into the drawing. Block "X" is a block used in both drawings. It is inserted with the first copy/paste elements. When the second copy/paste elements are inserted into the drawing AutoCAD is telling you that block "X is already defined in the drawing. It is not telling you it won't be inserted.

Nancy

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@Anonymous wrote:

I am using the insert command. That does not solve anything, it makes no difference to the drawing. Still getting the same error message.

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[Anonymous]

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@chriscowgill7373wrote:

Clear out your %temp% folder

Beyond that, what it is telling you is the block you are copying and pasting already exists in the new drawing and that it won't update the definition based on the new pasting.  if you are trying to update a block definition, you'll have to use the INSERT command

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Please tell...  Where the %Temp% is commonly located.  And why does any block not automatically update the block definition.  Where can I find the Variables to auto accept any block definition in CADD.  This is quite frustrating.  because It works on y machine but, not my drafter's Machine. and we both have the same O.S.  Any help for this would be greatly appreciated.

[robert06]

The error ivoleeman gets is quite common, in some cases I have not been able to resolve it either. Mostly you get the error message for Acad native dimension style arrow blocks.

'Duplicate definition of block ...  ignored' is an informative error message, but in some files it deflects the inability to paste or insert the data from another drawing weather you have AEC or proxy objects in it or not.

What one could do is to check, if in the destination drawing you insert data to the inserted objects' layers are on (it's easy not to notice that actually the insert was successful).

[MaccyDee]

Reviving a dead topic, but no-one seems to have an actual fix apart from "fix it".

If you've tried all the normal ways of fixing a drawing (purge, audit, exporttoautocad, copy into new dwg file) to no avail, then this might help you.

I encountered this issue today and after a bit of playing around with copying various parts of the drawing, I found that a block had a pdf underlay defined in it that had been removed but not purged before being made into a block, somewhere, somehow that pdf underlay was blown up to many times the size of the solar system and wasn't showing in the main drawing (this explains why a simple floor plan drawing was 115mb).

Save a copy of the drawing you're trying to copy from, open it and explode everything (run it 4 or 5 times), select everything using ctrl + a and then hold shift and deselect what you can see/what you want to copy, this will hopefully leave a couple of grip points selected, open the properties tab and find what the issue is, or simply delete the buggy entities, you might have to do this a couple of times

another issue i found during my investigations, there was a dimension style loaded that had the oblique set as their arrowheads, however they were a custom definition of an oblique, which i assume also contained the autocad oblique shape definition, i changed the arrowhead style to the regular autocad oblique and purged, solved the "duplicate definition of block _oblique ignored" warning.

[cintia_gesualdi]

type ANNOALLVISIBLE and enter the new value <1>

[cintia_gesualdi]

Just type ANNOALLVISIBLE and enter the new value <1>