Explode everything

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I don't have a whole lot of experience with AutoCAD (3 years). In my job I receive Cad files from the architect and make a layout point file for our surveying software using the CAD file as the background drawing. I have to do a lot of editing to the linework usually to make it usable for our needs.

I received a .dwg file for an architectural floor plan for a housing complex. I want to explode everything so that I can select any line and edit it. In the drawing file, each housing unit is an external reference and there are also referenced blocks (such as a window or door) that are within the drawing also. For the external references I bind each one, and for the blocks I have to select each one, go to properties, enable exploding and save and exit, then click the block and use the explode command.

This scenario happens a lot to me and I would like a simple way to "open up / unlock" these plans for easy editing. Is there a simple command that can just explode everything down all the way no matter the circumstance?

Thanks 

[KUMARPIPING]

One new option you may have noticed when creating blocks is the ability to restrict the block from being exploded. See the illustration below, if the Allow Exploding box is not checked, then you will not be able to explode this block.

If you run into a block like this and use the EXPLODE command, you will see this at the command line:

Command: EXPLODE
Select objects: 1 found
Select objects:
1 could not be exploded.

To modify the block to allow exploding, run the BLOCK command, pick the block name from the list, check the Allow Exploding box, then the OK button. You will see the following dialog, then click Yes.

Now you are able to explode this block.