Don't allow to keep blocks from my drawing

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone, I was searching a solution to my problem in other topics, but I could't find anything.

I have to send a drawing, with some block, but I don't want to allow others to copy, modify or simply access to my block.

Is there a way, a command or a procedure to do it?

Thanks everyone for your help. 

[h_s_walker]

EXPLODE the blocks and then PURGE them from your drawing

[Anonymous]

Sorry, maybe I should have specified that I need to send the blocks into the drawing, because it's for the suppliers and they need to know some infos.

And, actually, I don't know if it's something possible to do.

But thanks anyway for your reply.

[steven-g · Accepted solution]

There is no way to put protection on information in LT. You can either sabotage the drawing (explode) or replace sensitive items with an Image. Full Autocad has "burst" to keep attribute info but LT doesn't have that command.

[Anonymous]

It was I was supposing, thanks to clarify me the situation.

Can you please explain me what could I do with a full Autocad version and the command Burst? Using that command, could it be possible to do what I need to do?

[steven-g]

exploding a block in LT destroys any information contained in attributes and just leaves the attribute tag name, in full autocad the burst command, basically explodes a block as well but leaves everything visually the same so attributes become text items showing the correct values

[h_s_walker]

If you have an attribute in a block with default text of banana and you change the text to apple the following will happen.

If you EXPLODE the block, the text will change to banana, since that is the default.

If you BURST the block the text will stay as apple, because burst keeps the latest version of the attribute text.

[pendean]

If the block is still there, but now not a block, wouldn't BLOCK command just put it back for the recipient that wants it anyway? There is no magic bullet, you either send a DWG file or you do not, whatever you can do in AutoCAD the recipient can do in AutoCAD too.