HELP NEEDED: How to insert a block from another drawing?

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- Dennis van Dongen
  
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20 years ago

Tue, Dec 23, 2003 7:03 PM

Hi all,

Does anyone know how to insert a block from another drawing on this way;

- I have a self made pull-down menu where i select a block name

- There are several (4) drawings with lots of blocks in it where i want to call this block from

- The drawings i make are most made with this blocks.

I like to know how to create the command (in lisp or VBA) and also in the MNU file where i select the block from. I don't want to Bind all the drawings to the new drawing, because the file becomes very large after binding all blocks. Purging at close drawing is not the solution i want, because after that i need to bind all the drawings again. I only want to insert the blocks i realy need at the new drawing. The way i want it to be done this way, is because all these blocks need to be rebuild frequently, so its the easiest way to put these blocks on 1 drawing.

The question is how to insert a block (example): BLOCKA into a new drawing, from the self made Pull-down menu From Drawing: LIBRARY_1.dwg

Help appreciated. Dennis

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- Brian Spillane
  
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posted
20 years ago

Tue, Dec 23, 2003 8:13 PM

2000i and later = Designcenter R14 + previous = Wblock to folder desired

Happy Holidays !

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- Jeff
  
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20 years ago

Tue, Dec 23, 2003 8:37 PM

here's a function you can place in a button macro that will allow you to add the block name and the drawing path that holds the block. There's one line in the file that you will need to adjust for whatever prompts you want answered in the "insert" command.

Happy Holidays! Jeff

;| Import block from another drawing, block name and path\drawing are passed as arguments (imp_blk "blockname" "path\\tp\\blocks.dwg") Jeff Mishler, Dec. 23, 2003 Check for ObjectDBX installation (portion) by R. Robert Bell |;

(defun imp_blk (bname source / *acad* doc odbx Doctest blocks blist bimport) (vl-load-com) (if (not (tblsearch "block" bname)) (progn (setq *acad* (vlax-get-acad-object) doc (vla-get-activedocument *acad*) ) (vlax-for oDoc (vla-get-documents *acad*) (if (= (vla-get-fullname oDoc) source) (setq Doctest t) ) ) (if (not Doctest) (progn (if (> (atoi (getvar "AcadVer")) 15) (setq oDBX (vla-GetInterfaceObject *acad* "ObjectDBX.AxDbDocument.16")) (progn (if (not (vl-registry-read "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\ObjectDBX.AxDbDocument\\CLSID")) (startapp "regsvr32.exe" (strcat "/s \"" (findfile "axdb15.dll") "\"")) ) (setq oDBX (vla-GetInterfaceObject *acad* "ObjectDBX.AxDbDocument")) );progn );if (vla-open oDBX source);; "opens" source for our use (setq blocks (vla-get-blocks oDBX));; source blocks table (if (> (vla-get-count blocks) 0);;ensure there are blocks to import (progn (setq blist (list (vla-item blocks bname)) bimport (vlax-safearray-fill (vlax-make-safearray vlax-vbObject (cons 0 (- (length blist) 1)) ) blist) );; create safearray for use in ActiveX method (vla-copyobjects oDBX bimport (vla-get-blocks doc)) );progn );if (vlax-release-object oDBX);; we're done with it );progn (princ "\nYou entered a file in use by Autocad, please close and try again....") );if );progn );if (if (tblsearch "block" bname) (progn (setq oldecho (getvar "cmdecho")) (setvar "cmdecho" 1) (command "_-insert" bname pause pause pause) ;***** adjust above line to allow for required responses*** (setvar "cmdecho" oldecho) );progn (princ "\nERROR in database, block not found!") );if (princ);; exit quietly );defun