Exploding blocks
- Select the blocks using a crossing window
- With blocks still selected, Right-click=>Clipboard=>Copy with basepoint=>enter 0,0 on command line=>Enter
- In your target drawing=>Right-click in modelspace=>Clipboard=>Paste as Block=>enter 0,0 on command line=>Enter
The pasted entity (your copied blocks) is now a single block. You may now explode that entity. If exploded, they'll return to their original blocks.
You may also paste in the same drawing from which they were copied. When exploded, the individual blocks will be positioned in their original X/Y location.
Chicagolooper
Hi @leekennewell
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@leekennewell wrote:
.... How can AutoCAD explode that one block, such that I have the individual blocks left? What happens when I do it is AutoCAD explodes everything in that block and i'm left with individual lines (not desirable).
It doesn't work that way for me. When I Explode a Block containing nested Blocks, the result has those nested ones now as independent Blocks, still Blocks, not broken into their component parts. Are you using the ordinary Explode command, or perhaps something fancier that's meant to dig deeper in Exploding?
