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to save a DB out of a drawing, start the wblock command and then set the source block , then browse to the DB and select it , then change the destination directory.
Doing this will allow the DB to be inserted from design center.
You can also use design center to insert the DB without...
On the color "white" for a pen, make sure that you are set to 7 not 255, typicaly 255 looks as white AutoCAd Color Index, this is a non printing pen when set to object color,
I am making new blocks of through bolts and have the list set for the bolt length in a lookup table BUT on the stretch for the nut and washers it has a min. of 0 but I am looking to set the max for each of the bolt lengths. This is also added to the same lookup table and it will not work...
Kander
Check the variable PICKADD if it is set to 0 you must hold the shift key to individual objects with multiple picks, if set as 1 you can just pick each object with out the shift key.
David
A comment on the post from Darken99.
If you do that you should add it as part of a New "Use for" liniar style ( sub set of the current style) so you don't get the " on the angular dimensions.
Don
One thin to also remember is to lock the view ports.
If the VP is locked all the zooming / panning is the done as a paperspace zoom/pan, This prevents the scale of the viewport from changing.
Viewports can be locked several ways, the easiest is to select the viewport and in properties...
As an added method to speed up the importing of the PageSetup and easier yse of them.
Make a single drawing with settings for each plot configuration or set all of them up in the same drawings.
The this drawing can be used to import all the settings by inserting the file or a single setup can...
You could just plot it from a layout with 2 viewports.
One viewing each end of the 40' item at the same scale and align them and have the side of the viewports at the same place on the drawings so that it looks as if it is a single view.
and if you need to show more than one portion of the item...
I am haveing a problem with a shape ( I think)
I made a custom linetype that needed a shape to make the linetype. It is a line of condensation line that has a drop shape in it.
Other users are complaining about the need to cancel out of the 'Select shape file' when the dwg's are opened so I am...
Items in a block that are drawn on 0 and are colored 'by layer' and linetype 'by layer' will take on the color and linetype of the layer the block is placed on.
If the Express tools BURST Explode Attribute to Text is used to explode the items will retain the layer and color they are placed on.