2 or 3 drawing to one

Slavin
Slavin
in 2D Drafting

Hello,

i have drawings from producer. I need this drawing in one. When I copy first in new drawing, everything is OK. When a copy second, Bricscad show my only some lines. I think the problem is in the same block names. When I put the first drawing, everything is ok. When I put a second drawing, in which there are blocks with the same name as in the first drawing, so the blocks appear. How do I fix it? I can not rename the blocks.

Comments

  • Steven_g
    Steven_g

    You cannot have two different blocks in the same drawing using the same name, so you have to make the choice, rename or explode one of the blocks

  • Jason Bourhill
    Jason Bourhill

    XREF the drawings in instead.

    Regards,
    Jason Bourhill
    CAD Concepts

  • Slavin
    Slavin

    @Steven_g said:
    You cannot have two different blocks in the same drawing using the same name, so you have to make the choice, rename or explode one of the blocks

    I know. I insert first drawning via CUI menu (use _insert). I bombed first drawning, but that did not solve the problem. I have joined my CUI menu. You can try it.

  • Anthony Apostolaros
    Anthony Apostolaros
    edited July 2018

    @Slavin said:
    ...... I can not rename the blocks......

    That's not true. You can rename the block definitions in the source file before you copy the block insertions to the clipboard, and you must do that if you want to paste those block insertions into the target file without using block definitions already in the target file.
    Do you mean that you don't want to rename the blocks? Or that you don't know how to do it? Or something else?

    If you attach the source file as an xref, as suggested by others above, and then BIND the xref (in the External References tab of the Drawing Explorer), and then EXPLODE the block created by binding, then all the entities from the source file will be in the target file as individual entities, and all block insertions from the source file will still have their own block definition. A prefix will be added automatically to the block names. A prefix will also be added to layer names from the source file.

  • Steven_g
    Steven_g

    your options remain the same, rename, explode or xref, but your drawings contain different block geometry whilst using the same name, something has to change! your choice!

  • Michael Mayer
    Michael Mayer

    Ooops.
    I am used that I get asked in such cases if I want to overwrite existing
    Resources by new Imports, or skip the Imports and change them to the
    existing ones or to import anyway but auto rename them like *-01
    or similar before I lose any data ....

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