An odd problem with bursting.

Our office is currently using Autocad 2006, for Fire Sprinkler
drawings. Since I've been here I've learned alot about the program.
We've come across an odd problem, just today though. I've bursted alot
of my drawings as opposed to exploding them, lately if I were to
explode a drawing, the block that I exploded, would turn generic, i.e.
"RM NUMBER" "100" or something along those lines. So The burst
command has been a good friend of mine these last few weeks. Well onto
the problem.

My co-workers here are also operating on acad 2006 but for some unknown
reason, they do not have this command, I came on here searching for an
answer to why they receive a "command unknown" message after typing it
in. I found that the menu button can be found in "express tools" under
"blocks" but I do not have this menu button either. Maybe what I read
about was from a different version, I'm not sure. All I know is I'm
befuddled by it.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

i have 2006 & burst works for me... try typing it at the command prompt

 

thanks for the quick response!

That's how I input the command myself, by typing in the command prompt
window, as I don't have the menu button, for some unknown reason, the
other gents here asked about it today the conversation went like
this...

Him - Where do I find the burst command?
Me - Just type it in.
Him - I did but it said command unknown
Me - Did you spell it right?
Him - B-U-R-S-T...right?
Me - Well, that's right.

Then I came here for some answers.

I just find it odd, that I can use it, and they can't. Acad 2006 was
installed on all the computers at the same time, so I'm not sure what
could've happened.

 

its not an express command is it?

 

I just got 2007 and it also has the burst command at the command prompt
but I can find no reference to it in any menu or the help.

 

You should be able to find the burst.lsp program under your express folder
at the location where the program was installed on your machine
if the command is available at your command prompt.
That is where it is on my machine. You could copy that to the
other machines but then that would very likely be a breach
of the agreement with autodesk that the person who installed
the program accepted when the program was first installed.
Unless, the program was on the other machines to begin with
but was removed for some reason. I'm sure others here have
an opinion on that issue and could advise you better than I.

 

Well, Thanks for all the replies, this has helped much.

I went and looked in my autocad '06 folder and found the express
folder, and saw the burst lsp. So I went and looked in the other
fella's program files, it turns out, they do not have this express
folder, although 1 of them claims to have used the Burst command quite
often, a few months back.

And then it dawned (sp?) on me.

About 2 months ago, we had a freelancer come in with a disc that was
basically a mod, to make things "easier" for us, It allowed us to click
on various items such as backflows and sprinkler heads, and it would
pull up product submittal pages off the internet. It was a great
program, but my gut is telling me that this is probably the reason the
burst command isn't working on their computer. I'm guessing his
program took that file and had overwritten the contents or renamed it,
causing the path acad takes to become a "dead end" I'll have to browse
their folders later to see what I can find. Thankfully though I
declined the use of it on my computer. So much for "easy" eh? heh.

 

Oi. He probably replaced your menu files....