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Thoughts on Block Library
« on: May 13, 2019, 08:55:47 AM »
What are your thoughts on managing / creating a block library? What is the best practice would you say?

Keep all blocks in (one) dwg.

Keep separate dwgs for each block.

The end result would be that the user would access the blocks via the tool palette.


what do you think?
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Re: Thoughts on Block Library
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2019, 09:49:06 AM »
Keep separate dwgs for each block.
The end result would be that the user would access the blocks via self updating dialog(s).

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Re: Thoughts on Block Library
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2019, 10:16:14 AM »
When dealing with multiple clients, there may be cases where some blocks need to be different but not others.  When you have multiple blocks defined in a single file it makes managing a default/override arrangement difficult.  I usually prefer individual source files and let the SFSP determine which block is inserted.
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Re: Thoughts on Block Library
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2019, 10:28:03 AM »
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Re: Thoughts on Block Library
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2019, 04:05:56 PM »
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