Editing block and closing the whole drawing by mistake without saving

[Anonymous]

Hi

I dont know how many times i have been editing a block in a drawing and then clicked on the cross. Instead of closing the block editor i closed the whole drawing, many times without saving. 

It should have been made impossible to close the main drawing while editing a block!

Yours sincerely 

Stefan Emhjellen

[leothebuilder]

I have done the same thing many times!

[nrz13]

A workaround to avoid the interface confusion is to use keyboard shortcuts for exiting the block editor.  I use "SB" and "DB" for "save block" and "discard block changes" respectively.  Here's the LISP:

(defun c:SB ()(command "bclose" "s" "regen")(princ))

(defun c:DB ()(command "bclose" "d" "regen")(princ))

Note:  the drawing automatically regens after exiting the editor.  The second regen I added was to fix layer order issues after exiting the block editor.  If you don't have that problem, you can remove the "regen" part.

[leothebuilder]

I use the keyboard 95% for all commands.

I guess you could add the BCLOSE command to the .pgp file as BC.

I like your solution because it adds the "save" command.

Thx

[Anonymous]

Jepp.  i have to change this bad habbit and use BK shortcut  for closing blocks

(Still i wish Autodesk could change this  "trap" )

Thanks

[Anonymous]

 BC !

[leothebuilder]

Way way back up to around release 12 or so END would end your autocad session.

There were so many times I tried to enter END for osnap and it would bomb me out ot autocad.

Fortunately they Autodesk changed that.