Inserting a block in to attribute block in multiple drawings.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have almost 150 drawings and all drawings having a title block named A1-PDO. Any body know how to insert a new block (A1) to this block (A1-PDF) in all drawings at once?. Attaching the title block drawing.  (Actually i want to edit all the title blocks and insert a new block in to it for all 150 drawings at once). 

Please help.

Sorry for my poor English.

[SeeMSixty7]

Block redefinition is pretty easy. I'm not sure exactly what your intent is, but if you simply want to add a BLOCK(i.e. logo or something to an existing block you simply update the blocks file definition, then insert EQUALS that block into the existing drawing. If you added a block inside of that block it will then include that block with the redefine. You can then cancel the effort and the block is updated.

If you want to add an attribute to an existing block you have to do the same thing, but then you need to run something like BATTMAN or some other utility to add the attribute to the already inserted block.

I'm pretty sure there are probably several iterations of tools in this site to provide the functionality you are looking for.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your reply.

Actually i don't know how to redefine a block for multiple drawings. Can you tell me that step by step.

[SeeMSixty7 · Accepted solution]

First step is to get the block the way you want it. Open a drawing with the titleblock, update the titleblock via BEDIT, insert any new blocks that you want to be part of that block into that block. Get the block the way you want it in the existing drawing.

now WriteBlock the Block to a file. WBLOCK
Select the block to Write to File and then provide a filename and location, set the units properly.

you can then process the drawings either via a script file executing am insertequals(This means start the -insert command provide the blockname you wish to update followed by an = and the name of the updated filename with path. If you are doing this at the command prompt you can simply cancel one you see the message block redefined, but in a script file if you cancel the command it will also cause the script file to halt, so you will have to insert the block all the way and then erase the new block you placed.

Design Center may have some tools to help with this as well. you might want to look into that too.

good luck