lazy architect how do I fix common autocad block problems?
thank you for your great question Bira. here are my AutoCAD tricks to fix
common block problems in AutoCAD. coming down from number 4 AutoCAD copy block problem
sometimes happen that if you wanna copy a block to a specific drawing
for instance here if I want to copy this dynamic elevation window with control C
and paste it here. let me remove this window first. paste it with control V
you'll see that my block is not the same. this is just a regular block
but I wanted to copy this dynamic block. so the problem here is that there is an AutoCAD block
with the same name in this drawing. as you can see the name of this block is
dynamic elevation window. so type rename and enter, and then blocks, and look for
this specific block. once you find it, go ahead and rename it. press ok
now if you go back to your block library and copy your block or dynamic AutoCAD block again
using control-c and go back to this drawing let me get rid of this window
and if you paste it with control V, as you can see now your
AutoCAD copy block problem was solved. you have your dynamic elevation window working nicely this time
number 3, fix AutoCAD blocks base point
here I want to change block insertion point without altering
the location of already inserted blocks. for instance these blocks have a
base point in the wrong place creating many future issues such as not able to
stretch block, scale block, and so on. fix them all at once!
here is the trick open block editor, draw a line from 0 comma 0 comma 0
origin point to your desired insertion point for your block. now save
and close AutoCAD block editor. in model space use move command to place your block like so.
finally, access block editor again, remove line and save.
as you can see all blocks insertion points are now in the correct position
AutoCAD block problem numero dos. AutoCAD hidden lines not showing in block
here if I select this window as you can see it's right now on the a-window
layer but if I change it to the demo layer or the demolition layer
you can see the hidden lines are not showing on this block. to fix this issue
you will have to right-click on it and choose block editor. here if this is a
dynamic block, you'll have to click on visibility mode to turn on all of the
existing objects for this dynamic block, so click on the ribbon, visibility mode
as you can see everything is showing now on model space now type PR to open the
properties palette. let me move it right here. next select everything using ctrl all
in your keyboard, and here on your properties palette change or make sure
the line type is set by block
once you do that click again on your ribbon visivility mode to turn
everything off and close and save your block. as you can see now, this time the
hidden lines are showing on this specific dynamic block. one more thing
that I'd like to share with you is, you can, if you want to change the scale of these
hidden lines, you also have to go to your block editor and do the same procedure
select everything and change the line type scale from the properties palette
if I change to 0.5 and close and save this block, you can see that these dashes
lines scale or hidden line scales it's also smaller this time. if you would like
to get this dynamic block, let me know in the comments. I'll pick two comment
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