Having a Duh moment

[gfreddog]

Having a Duh moment....

Now I know Chris will finally be able to get back at me for this one

A little history first. I formerly was at a company that used AutoCAD 2006 / 2007 and left there for a company that turned out had 2004. So, just as I was getting up to speed on DB's I lost a year of productivity .

Well, I was able to convince our company to go for the AutoCAD 2008 MEP/Revit Suite and there was much rejoicing Yea!!!!

So now I am finally "TRYING" to get back up to speed on DB's and here is my question (A little long so please bear with me):

I have a blank drawing. I create a block. And save the drawing in my library as alpha.dwg (as an example)

Now I decide to make it Dynamic. So I open alpha.dwg and use the Block Editor to add my bells and whistles. Once done I hit Close Block Editor. Hit Save and close the drawing.

If I want to add the DB from alpha.dwg to my Tool Pallet, I use Design Center and drag that block from alpha.dwg onto the tab I want and all is good.

So now my question is... If I open alpha.dwg I click on Block Editor to edit the block.

But occasionally I get block drawings from others (AUGI Site or Chris the Block God) and when I open them there is a pop-up that says "BLOCK.dwg contains authoring elements. Open in Block Editor? Yes, No, Cancel" and if you hit yes it goes into the Block Editor and when I hit Close Block Editor it closes the drawing.

What makes one DB drawing open one way and what the other?

Clear as mud?

Thanks;

Red Dog

[sschwartz85916]

Having a Duh moment....

Now I know Chris will finally be able to get back at me for this one

A little history first. I formerly was at a company that used AutoCAD 2006 / 2007 and left there for a company that turned out had 2004. So, just as I was getting up to speed on DB's I lost a year of productivity .

Well, I was able to convince our company to go for the AutoCAD 2008 MEP/Revit Suite and there was much rejoicing Yea!!!!

So now I am finally "TRYING" to get back up to speed on DB's and here is my question (A little long so please bear with me):

I have a blank drawing. I create a block. And save the drawing in my library as alpha.dwg (as an example)

Now I decide to make it Dynamic. So I open alpha.dwg and use the Block Editor to add my bells and whistles. Once done I hit Close Block Editor. Hit Save and close the drawing.

If I want to add the DB from alpha.dwg to my Tool Pallet, I use Design Center and drag that block from alpha.dwg onto the tab I want and all is good.

So now my question is... If I open alpha.dwg I click on Block Editor to edit the block.

But occasionally I get block drawings from others (AUGI Site or Chris the Block God) and when I open them there is a pop-up that says "BLOCK.dwg contains authoring elements. Open in Block Editor? Yes, No, Cancel" and if you hit yes it goes into the Block Editor and when I hit Close Block Editor it closes the drawing.

What makes one DB drawing open one way and what the other?

Clear as mud?

Thanks;

Red Dog

um... What did you name the block that was contained in alpha.dwg? (That is a clue) ... Go Chris Go Chris!

[Rick Moore]

If wblock the block defintion you'll get just the defintion in the resulting drawing. Opening that drawing will cause the message you see

[tedg]

So now my question is... If I open alpha.dwg I click on Block Editor to edit the block.

But occasionally I get block drawings from others (AUGI Site or Chris the Block God) and when I open them there is a pop-up that says "BLOCK.dwg contains authoring elements. Open in Block Editor? Yes, No, Cancel" and if you hit yes it goes into the Block Editor and when I hit Close Block Editor it closes the drawing.

What makes one DB drawing open one way and what the other?

Clear as mud?

Thanks;

Red Dog

I'll bet the ones that you get from the "block god" are raw blocks (the actual block definition) and the one in your "alpha.dwg" is a block in your alpha.dwg. In other words, you have a block definition (named something other than "alpha") in your drawing.

Clear as thinner mud?

[gfreddog]

um... What did you name the block that was contained in alpha.dwg? (That is a clue) ... Go Chris Go Chris!

Both same....

But after some playing....

I create a DB in some other drawing. Once finished I close the Block Editor, highlight the block and W Block it. I save it as alpha.dwg.

When I open it voila! I get "alpha.dwg contains authoring elements. Open in Block Editor? Yes, No, Cancel"

Like I said

Having a Duh moment

Thank you everyone!

[NEaton]

If you open the actual block drawing ALPHA.DWG you will get the "Open in Block Editor?" question.

If ALPHA is a block within drawing BETA.DWG and you right-click on ALPHA block and "Open Block Editor..." it will automatically open in the block editor because AutoCAD knows ALPHA is a block within a drawing.

Clear as mud, yet?

Nancy

Both same....

But after some playing....

I create a DB in some other drawing. Once finished I close the Block Editor, highlight the block and W Block it. I save it as alpha.dwg.

When I open it voila! I get "alpha.dwg contains authoring elements. Open in Block Editor? Yes, No, Cancel"

Like I said

Thank you everyone!