#HOW TO EXPLODE A BLOCK IN AUTOCAD 2014 HOW TO#

The block you inserted is non-uniformly scaled block, and also, the variable explmode is set to be 0. You have to re-define a new block and tick the box “Allow exploding”. Exploding this block will get message from command line: “1 could not be exploded.”. You create this block in autocad and not checking on “ Allow exploding“.

We can’t explode block for several reasons, now allowed, non-uniformly. Remember that Blocks can be scaled, clipped using the XCLIP or CLIPIT commands, etc so consider other options before exploding them. If they have been created as blocks is for a reason, so exploding them might screw up someone else’s effort. The Block should explode.Īs I said before, be careful about exploding blocks (specially in a multiuser environment). Now select the Block, enter X for EXPLODE. You will see that the “allow exploding” option is unselected. Then on the drop down list search for the block you are unable to explode. The trick is to open the block definition dialog box (type “b”, or “block”) without selecting anything. If you don’t know that this exists, you might find yourself unable to explode a block that you really, really, really need to explode (I am no fan of Block exploding, I mostly hate people who do that as a hobby, but sometimes you do need to explode them). One of this is the option to not allow the block to be exploded. So what’s next? What would you be interested in learning more about? Got an idea for a post? Email me and I’ll see what I can do.When a Block is created there are several options that sometimes are overlooked. BURST is an express tool that can keep attribute value after you explode a block. If you want to know more about creating blocks, creating powerful Dynamic blocks, editing or enhancing the blocks you have check out these other posts: You probably already know about BURST command. Pat yourself on the back for a job well done! Now everyone that has access to that directory now can use the block in their drawings!.WBLOCK out the block to your standard block library directory.Rename the block with the RENAME command.LIST will allow you to copy the text from the command window and paste it into the next step, which saves some memory brain cells – cool! You can do this by highlighting the block and right clicking to see its ‘Properties’ OR use the ‘LIST’ command. Figure out what the anonymous name of the block is.WBlocking is easy – lets walk through the steps:

WBlocking the anonymous block out will still require you know what the block name is, so I would recommend that you rename it first anyway. If you want to be able to use the anonymous block in future drawings ( Great idea!), you can WBLOCK the anonymous block out to a folder on your server or location where you keep your master blocks. If you have not renamed a block before, you should know that the RENAME command allows you to rename a lot of things in AutoCAD – look at this list: Renaming the anonymous block is the quickest way to fix this issue – this will provide you with a logical reference to the block.

#HOW TO EXPLODE A BLOCK IN AUTOCAD 2014 HOW TO#

Hell, if you are going to do this, at least rename it to something that makes sense – which brings us to how to fix the ones we have. Of course you could copy and rotate the block each time you wanted another copy – which apparently some people do, verses inserting it and allowing the insert routine to offer scaling, rotating, etc… This is shoddy work in my opinion and does not do much for future drawing tasks. As far as why this is a problem, think back to above and how hard it is to identify them to insert another one. Note: A slight step-up would be to ‘Copy with Basepoint’ (CTRL-SHIFT-C). Select and copy all of them with the right click and ‘Clipboard’ copy command or ‘CTRL-C’.Find some geometry that you think should be a block instead of a bunch of line segments.It is very easy to make an anonymous block, which is why they are so common. I think we would all agree on this, but you may have a few questions: I am not sure about you, but I am thinking that better names would be: Below are a couple anonymous blocks – tell me what you think they are: In reality it does have a name, it just does not make much sense. Simple Definition of anonymity: the quality or state of being unknown to most people : the quality or state of being anonymousĪnonymous in AutoCAD basically means unnamed, so an anonymous block is a block without a name.

In my last post I indicated that I would follow up on a specific issue that I see happening on a pandemic level – anonymous blocks.

How to explode a block in autocad 2014