EXPBLOCKS command

Opens the Blocks category of the Drawing Explorer dialog box for inserting, deleting, and creating blocks.

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Alias: XB

Description

Displays the Blocks category of the Drawing Explorer dialog box:

New: Creates new blocks. Dismisses the Drawing Explorer dialog box and starts the -BLOCK command.

Delete: Deletes the block definition. Available only for block definitions that are not inserted in the drawing.

Insert: Inserts the selected block. Dismisses the Drawing Explorer dialog box and starts the -INSERT command.

Insert External: Inserts DWG files as blocks. Starts the INSERT command, and then displays the Insert Block dialog box.

Save Block: Displays the Save Block dialog box to export the selected block as a DWG file.

Replace...: Opens the Block Replace dialog box to choose another block to replace.

Replace with Xref...: Opens the Select an Xref file dialog box to choose an Xref file to replace.

Options...: Displays the Drawing Explorer Options dialog box to align, set the scale or the rotation of the inserted blocks.

Align with view: When checked, inserts the block to face the camera (blocks are rotated about their local Z-axis to face the camera).

Rename: Renames the selected block.

Note: Parametric blocks cannot be cut, copied or renamed.

Invert Selection: Inverts the selected blocks. For instance, if you have one block selected, then this option deselects it, and then selects all other blocks.

Block Name: Specifies the name of the block.

Note: You can narrow the list by name using the search bar.

Match Orientation to Layout: When checked, sets the Match Orientation property of annotative blocks.

Face Camera: When checked, inserts the block to face the camera (blocks are rotated about their local Z-axis to face the camera). See the CAMERA command.

Explodable: When checked, blocks of this definition can be exploded into its component parts by the EXPLODE command. Non-Uniformly scaled blocks can be exploded only if EXPLMODE system variable is ON.

References: Reports the number of visible block inserts on all nested levels and, under the brackets, the total number of block inserts in the current drawing; the numbers are set by the program, so you cannot change it.

Note: The total number of block inserts includes block references on frozen or switched-off layers.

Insertion Point: Reports the insertion point of the block. Reports "Varies" when the block has been inserted in the drawing more than once.

History-based

When checked: each parametrically modified block reference has a separate copy of the original block.
When checked and disabled: the block is dynamic and always remembers the expression setting history. Block references have different blocks if the history is different.
When not checked: parametrically modified block references share the same block if the set of expressions is the same. The order in which the expressions are set is not taken into account.

Block Type: Indicates if the block is Static, Dynamic, Parametric, or Hybrid.