Updating blocks nested within Dynamic Blocks

[mattr.143859]

We have MANY dynamic blocks. These DBs are made of of smaller blocks, or "parts". We have thousands of "parts." When we update a block (a "part") we need to update the block in each Dynamic Block. We need a fast and simple way to do this, without opening each DB individually. We also need a way to purge old or bad blocks out of our library.

[RobertB]

If you are truly using a block for the "part" then all you need to do is update the part block definition and all other blocks that are nesting that block will automatically be updated. This works great where the DBlocks are stored in a library drawing file.

However, if you are storing your DBlocks as individual files then you are going to need to either write an AutoCAD script file (.scr) to hop into each drawing and insert the updated block definition, or write some code that would do the same thing.

A script can easily handle the purge.