What is the best way to deal with imported...
Chuck Bennett
11 Jan 2023
NC22
I have a drawing(s) from Autocad with a lot of dynamic blocks. When I go to edit them it cannot but it will let me make a new block.
Is there better way to deal with these than recreating and replacing them?
As an aside, I tried a cloud converter to convert to an older version of Autocad. That worked in many aspects but it also made a mess of some drawings by confusing the block references in the drawings i.e in some drawings it related a pump block to a valve block and I ended up with many many pumps when it was supposed to be many many valves. Bizarre I know and likely something in the way the original designer set up the drawings and blocks.
Autodesk does not seem to play nice with other software. For that matter in a previous life I had trouble with it playing nice with Autocad files from other companies.
Any tricks or insights would be appreciated. I'm a novice CAD person doing 2 D P&ID's.
I have a drawing(s) from Autocad with a lot of dynamic blocks. When I go to edit them it cannot but it will let me make a new block.
Is there better way to deal with these than recreating and replacing them?
As an aside, I tried a cloud converter to convert to an older version of Autocad. That worked in many aspects but it also made a mess of some drawings by confusing the block references in the drawings i.e in some drawings it related a pump block to a valve block and I ended up with many many pumps when it was supposed to be many many valves. Bizarre I know and likely something in the way the original designer set up the drawings and blocks.
Autodesk does not seem to play nice with other software. For that matter in a previous life I had trouble with it playing nice with Autocad files from other companies.
Any tricks or insights would be appreciated. I'm a novice CAD person doing 2 D P&ID's.
