Phantom Boxes in blocks

[gfreddog]

Help

I have drawings created in 2008 AutoCAD that I am opening in AutoCAD MEP 2010.

But the blocks have these "Phantom Squares" around them but if I open Block Editor those squares are not there. If I delete the square it delete's the entire block.

Screen shot attached.

Any ideas?

Thx;

RD

[jnoon]

Maybe a frames setting? or a border of some sort

john

[gfreddog]

Maybe a frames setting? or a border of some sort

john

Yes possibly, they don't plot.

Why would they have frames around the blocks?

[tedg]

They wouldn't be nodes in the blocks would they?
Like PDMODE = 65 ?

[gfreddog]

They wouldn't be nodes in the blocks would they?
Like PDMODE = 65 ?

Not sure but PDMODE is set to 0

Attached is a copy of the DWG in 2010 Format

[tedg]

Not sure but PDMODE is set to 0

Attached is a copy of the DWG in 2010 Format

Well.. I'm working in 2006, and I tried converting this (TruConvert) to 2004 file format, and I get an error. What format does 2010 produce? I know of 2004 and 2007, is there a higher one?

~shrug~

[H'Angus]

Well.. I'm working in 2006, and I tried converting this (TruConvert) to 2004 file format, and I get an error. What format does 2010 produce? I know of 2004 and 2007, is there a higher one?

~shrug~

Yep 2010 has changed to 2010 file format.

[vtmiii]

I posted something similar to this problem when we went to 2010 back in the spring. We found out that the frame setting to 0 will get rid of the phantom squares most of the times.
Its Possible the patch autodesk released may fix the problem, have yet to install it to see.

[gfreddog]

Yeah I'm on 2010 withe the latest Service Pack.

Only problem with setting Frame to 0 is it turns off the XCLIP Frames as well and I use them a bunch.

[gfreddog]

I can turn them off but it also turns off the XCLIP Frames... any ideas on how not to have to do that? Or where these came from?

Thanks