×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Blank Block Name In Layer Table

Blank Block Name In Layer Table

Blank Block Name In Layer Table

(OP)
I have a block in some drawings that only shows in the dxf file
and when I run the (BLOCK) function from the TABLES.LSP

This is the result from the (BLOCK) function

              0      0.0000,0.0000,0.0000
              TEXT      on layer 88 with color 6
              LINE      on layer 88 with color 6
              LINE      on layer 88 with color 6
              LINE      on layer 88 with color 6
              LINE      on layer 88 with color 3
              LINE      on layer 88 with color 3
              LINE      on layer 88 with color 3
              LINE      on layer 88 with color 3
              LINE      on layer 88 with color 3
              LINE      on layer 88 with color 3

We are a small engineering department and I do not have the time to write a lisp routine to kill this block off.

Does anyone know of a routine or program that can take care of this.

Thanks,
Rod Uding

RE: Blank Block Name In Layer Table

Hi,

What you can do is keep a copy of your drawing and make a Wblock * your drawing to a new drawing. This will get rid of any non-used blocks. It's similar to a purge.

Hope this helps,
Roberttx.

RE: Blank Block Name In Layer Table

(OP)
Roberttx
I have tried that and it does not work.  Apparently since the name is blank in the table, AutoCAD does not see the block and
will not get rid of it.  So, the block is defined and carries
the useless layer around and I can't get rid of it by conventional means.  This points me at some kind of progam.  Also, we are stilling using R14 which means Autodesk will not
give us any support on this.

Rod

RE: Blank Block Name In Layer Table

Hi,
The method
    Wblock *
gets rid of any non-used block or layer. If your block is inserted, should be viewable. Unless it has hidden attributes with no value or contains text with only spaces.
Why don't you send me a copy of your drawing if want me to figure out on that?
Try to reach me at gil_roberto@hotmail.com.
I'm still using acad14, too.

Roberttx.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources