Is ther any way to change a name of a block?

[danezeq]

Is ther any way to change a name of a block?

[ValdisPriednieks]

I do not know.

You can open the block for edit, then «save block as», give new name for block, then purge block with old name.

[Alfred.NESWADBA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

>> Is ther any way to change a name of a block?

Command _RENAME

- alfred -

[MikeKovacik4928 · Accepted solution]

the rename command

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[danezeq]

thank you all 🙂

[Kent1Cooper]

If you'd like to be able to do it by selecting a Block insertion, without  needing to know what its name is to use in the RENAME dialog box, check out RenameBlock.lsp with its RB command, available >>here<<.  This is especially handy when the Block is the result of using PASTEBLOCK and has a name like A$CFG5D32S.

[MikeKovacik4928]

Kent

That is really cool!

I will download and use it here at home, and introduce it at work as well.

I am going to introduce using of lisp at work as well,

and start a work AutoCAD Hints &Tips,

This will be AutoCAD Hint & Tip No 1

Mike

[Kent1Cooper]

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I am going to introduce using of lisp at work as well, and start a work AutoCAD Hints &Tips, This will be AutoCAD Hint & Tip No 1

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A closely-related suggestion for Tip No 2 -- PasteBlockWithName.lsp, available >>here<<, which prevents those wacky A$CFG5D32S Block names that result from PASTEBLOCK from getting into your drawing in the first place.  It does it by redefining the command  to require you to give a PASTEBLOCKed Block a meaningful name when you bring it in.  If that kind of wacky name is a major reason you want to have RenameBlock.lsp / RB on hand, this would eliminate the need for it in that situation [except for pre-existing wacky names], though RB is still useful, since it can also be used to change other-than-wacky names.

[MikeKovacik4928]

Kent

Thanks

When you copy with base point a whacky named block from another drawing, and then paste it,  into a new drawing nothing changes.

However when you paste it as a block, as you say, it asks for a new name.

this however makes it into a nested block which when exploded becomes the same wacky name again.

It is a nice lisp routine, I will keep it and see if I can put it to use

I will put it as my AutoCAD Hint and Tip No 2, anyway

Mike

[Kent1Cooper]

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@MikeKovacik4928 wrote:

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When you copy with base point a whacky named block from another drawing, and then paste it,  into a new drawing nothing changes.

However when you paste it as a block, as you say, it asks for a new name.

this however makes it into a nested block which when exploded becomes the same wacky name again.

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True -- it doesn't "fix" a wackily-named Block if that's your source object.  It affects only the Block name within the current drawing of clipboard material brought in via PASTEBLOCK [everything on the clipboard collectively, whether that's one object or more], but not that of a Block object that already has a name, when brought in from another drawing that way -- that would just be an object that retains the properties it had in the source drawing, just as a Line would when included in the clipboard material.

To fix such a Block name when you bring it into the current drawing, you would need to use either ordinary PASTE rather than PASTEBLOCK, or the Design Center, followed by RB [or better yet, use RB on it in the source drawing first].

[MikeKovacik4928]

Thanks Kent

Noted, will bear that in mind.

Mike

[Anonymous]

Thats was easy thank you.