Topic: Copying or Redefining Blocks into mulitple drawings

[MSTG007]

Has anyone had a way that the user could copy an entity (ies) from one drawing and then paste them into multiple drawings without opening the files?

Has anyone had away to redefine a block  into multiple drawings without opening them?

Curious.

Thanks guys

[mjfarrell]

this sounds like something that would require access to the block table record...from outside autocad (Python) or other to do this task as a batch

[ronjonp]

Python?
Look at Lee's object dbx wrapper in conjunction with vla-insertblock or vla-CopyObjects methods.

[mjfarrell]

Python?
Look at Lee's object dbx wrapper in conjunction with vla-insertblock or vla-CopyObjects methods.

shot in the dark....

[cadtag]

mixing old school with new school,,,, you could generate a script that opened a drawings, redefined the block using insert oldname=drive\path\newname.dwg, then saved and opened the next dwg to process

Then feed that script toaccoreconsole.exe

[ChrisCarlson]

I'm not sure how block entities differ from text/mtext but peruse

http://www.lee-mac.com/lisp/html/BFindV2-0.html