Topic: Update block

[Fabricio28]

Hi guys,

Happy New year and best wishes!!

I've created a block (WBLOCK) and I inserted it in a drawing.
So I needed to modify something in the block. But the block inside the drawing didn't update.
I had to inserted it again to redefine the block.

How I can update the block in the drawing without insert it?

[dgorsman]

You can't, or at least not without some effort.  Inserting the block prompts the user if they want to redefine the block - changing the definition is what changes the block.  There's only two ways of changing the block definition, either using the built-in insert system or use code to programmatically alter the entities in the definition.

If you *really* need to update it like that, consider using an XREF rather than a block reference.

[Fabricio28]

Hi dgorsman,
Thank you for replay

If you *really* need to update it like that, consider using an XREF rather than a block reference.

I don't really need this.
I was wondering if there is a autocad command to update the block.

Regards
Fabricio

[kentium3k]

You could automate it if it is just one block.

(command "-insert" "test1=" "y" ^C^C)

Where test1 is the name of your block.  This assumes the block is in a folder in your search path.

If not you can include the file search path.

[Fabricio28]

Wow!!!

Good kentium3k!!!

Simple code, but worked perfectly.

Thanks

[Rob...]

Alternatively, you could edit it from within the drawing using the block editor. You can save it out to the block file from there as well as save it in the drawing.

[HasanCAD]

What about using Design Center?

[Fabricio28]

Thank you guys,

You helped me a lot.

I really appreciated all those suggestions.

Regards