At former employers I rarely used blocks in drawings, I can think of
only one in the 6 years prior to my current employer. At this company,
a job I took to convert them from acad to sw, they use tons of blocks
sometimes 10 or more on one drawing. And they use them for the wrong
purposes, typically they like to use a block to replicate a drawing
view (for example in place of a section view) that needs to be placed
on multiple drawings, rather than create that view on each drawing
sheet they like to draw a block and insert that block into every
drawing. I tried to convince them that was bad because that block is
not parametic (they are still having a hard time understanding
parametric, being acad users).
So I have two questions:
1. Do you use blocks in drawings, if so how often (All the time?
Rarely? Never?)
2. How do you create the blocks? Everytime I try to create a block the
block gets scaled up but the scale factor gets reduced to something
like .04 and then when trying to add dimensions or notes to the block
the arrowheads and dimension values are all scaled way too big. The
process I am trying to use is to create the view in sw then export to
a dwg then import into sw (so what was the component edges are now
sketch segments) and then make that a block. But it is not working
very well.
I have to admit I am a little embarrassed that I cannot figure this
out, having used sw for 8 years and being certified but like I said
prior to this job I had made one block in the past 6 years.
Thanks,
Sam
- posted
14 years ago