Gordon,
I've often wondered about that too. I see that Insbase/Base would be useful
with Xrefs. But other then that, I can't think of a good reason to have
Insbase set at anything but 0,0,0. It's confusing.
Sure wish the Wblock command would take the selection set and pick point,
and create a new drawing were the picked point is translated to the WCS
origin, and the selection set is copied to the same relative location from
the new WCS origin as it was from the picked point in the parent drawing.
I keep thinking one of these days I'll write a wrapper routine around the
Wblock command that does that, it would be easy I think, but am always busy
frying bigger fish.
Regards,
Steve Doman
"Gordon Price" wrote in message
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> I still don't understand why, when you pick a non 0,0,0 poit as the
> insertion point when WBlocking, that point couldn't be at 0,0,0 in the
> resulting drawing. Things then insert as intended, and you don't have
entire
> drawing sets getting screwed up when insbase changes. I think insbase was
> just a kludge from way back when that never got handled properly and still
> causes grief.
>
> Best,
> Gordon
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