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Most of us are familiar with the
Refedit command to re-define existing blocks in our drawing files, rather
than exploding and re-defining them. Occasionally you will run into an
error with non-uniformly scaled blocks. AutoCAD will not allow you to
edit these block definitions unless you insert an instance, that is not
scaled, at a 1:1 ratio, and then use Refedit on the 1:1 instance. This
problem was difficult to figure out and time consuming to fix.
The great tip for this week is that
the new Block Editor will now handle these non-uniformly scaled blocks, with
ease. No more errors at the command line! Your double-click edit
definition for blocks should default to the new editor.
The new editor, unfortunately, does
not find nested blocks within the block definition like the Refedit command
did. To use this nesting selection functionality for re-defining
blocks, issue the Refedit command rather than double-clicking on a block
definition.
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