Is there a way to export blocks in a drawing to seperate DWG files named after the block? Sort of a backwards insert if you will.
I know I can manually do it, set scale to 1, explode, wblock then move insertion to 0,0.
But I'm hoping to do this for a bunch of blocks in one drawing. I tried dragging the blocks from design center to a folder, but that didn't work. Any ideas?
Are you trying to create a symbol library?
If so, are you familiar with Tool Palettes? They can be used to insert blocks from one drawing into another very easily. You can even specify things like Layer to use when inserting the blocks, so blocks always come in correctly regardless of the current user settings.
Easiest way is to just create a drawing that is empty except for your blocks. Then browse to the drawing in Design Center and select "Create Tool Palette". This creates a tool palette, with one Block Tool for each block in the drawing. Extremely simple.
Having your symbol library in a Tool Palette works very well for some things, not-so-well for other things. The feature would be MUCH more useful if you could group related Block Tools on the Tool Palette into Flyouts, but you can't.