Wblock vs. Block

[anderson51]

Question:

What are the advantages/disadvantages of using one vs. the other?

[Patchy · Accepted solution]

Wblock writes to a location you can use to insert to any drawing if you have a path set in OPTIONS.

Block stays in 1 drawing.

[murray-clack]

The command WBLOCK is an action to export items from your current drawing, whereas the BLOCK command inserts a block definition currently defined in your drawing.  

(The term WBLOCK means "Write Block" which creates a SEPARATE drawing file of selected objects)

For example, let's say you have some design geometry that is no longer relevant to the project, but you would still like to keep it for safe keeping.  Instead of it cluttering up your current drawing, you can the WBLOCK command to create a new separate drawing file of the objects you want removed from your drawing.

[braudpat]

Hello

In the current drawing when creating a future Symbol (Block), if I imagine that this symbol will never be used in an other DWG, I use BLOCK

In 95-99%, I use WBLOCK ...

[anderson51]

Thanks for all the input!

[v21ic]

Exactly! That's why drawing files contain BLOCK commands have an overhead which WBLOCK's  offers to alleviate by storing it in another file. 

It makes a lot of sense! 

Thanks

[RobDraw]

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@v21ic wrote:

Exactly! That's why drawing files contain BLOCK commands have an overhead which WBLOCK's  offers to alleviate by storing it in another file. 

It makes a lot of sense! 

Thanks

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Not really.

As far as the .dwg is concerned, there is absolutely no difference. You might be thinking of XREFs, where the .dwg information is stored in an external file and then referenced in. A block is a block no matter if it was created with the BLOCK command or WBLOCK. There is absolutely no difference in the .dwg. If you insert a block created with the WBLOCK command, it is no different than one created with BLOCK.