Bringing objects into a block while in block edit
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Topic: Bringing objects into a block while in block edit
Posted By: Nate143
Subject: Bringing objects into a block while in block edit
Date Posted: 12.Sep.2017 at 08:31
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Hi all I want to edit a whole bunch of blocks using 'edit block in place' and bring objects into the block that are currently not there is there a faster way to do this than to explode the block select all the objects and perform the block function then redefine the block? I don't want to use the insert function because then it becomes an inception movie, with blocks within blocks within blocks within blocks  Any ideas? Regrds Nate
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Posted By: Kent Cooper
Date Posted: 13.Sep.2017 at 14:51
| Use REFEDIT rather than BEDIT. You can add other things in the drawing to the working set. |
Posted By: Nate143
Date Posted: 13.Sep.2017 at 15:38
| REFEDIT is the short-key for 'Edit Block in place' you can find it by right clicking after you've selected the block... it's faster than typing REFEDIT. I want to know how to bring the object into that block after performing that function without having to redraw it. That was a simple example I showed but most of them are entire mechanisms with gears etc. which will take forever to trace. |
Posted By: Kent Cooper
Date Posted: 13.Sep.2017 at 22:09
| Add them to the working set, Copy them into place, then Remove the source ones from the working set. |