Oh...from what I information I could gather in the online help and Sutphin's
book, it looked like I needed to emulate the manual method of exploding a block
before I could edit its objects and then "redefine" it to have the changes take
effect. Well, back to the books.
Larry Loop
Rune Wold wrote:
> I think you are going about this the wrong way.
>
> If you find the block definition ,ThisDrawing.Blocks.Item("BlockName"), you
> can do your modifications directly in the block. The block is a collection
> of entities that you can edit, remove and add.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
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> Rune Wold
> System Analyst
> Engineering Systems
> rune@engsys.no
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>
> "Larry Loop" wrote in message
> news:39D9F013.30CCA763@lmco.com...
> > Help...I'm new to both AutoCAD and Visual Basic and am struggling to
> > learn both. I am tryin to develop a macro to help in the conversion of
> > drawings from another CAD application (MicroCADAM) to AutoCAD.
> >
> > One of the steps in the conversion that I'm working now in VBA is to
> > change each block defined in the drawing to: scale the drawing entities
> > down by 12, change the text height and the entities' color to ByLayer.
> > I've done most of this by stepping through the blocks one-by-one and,
> > (1)inserting each at 0,0 (2) exploding that refence, and(3) modifying
> > the entities. Now I want to "redefine" the block with these objects.
> > How do I do this? I can't Add it because it already exists in the
> > Blocks collection. What approach should I take?
> >
> > Larry
> >
