Clone a Block and Extract Block DB

Hi everyone:

I've got two ideas with blocks... one is to clone a block, it means to take a block and copy within the drawing with other name (for some reasons i need to copy blocks) is there any way?

The other idea is to get the data base of any block.. not only the attribute data... it's all the lines, polylines, texts, attributes, circles, etc that compound a block and get that code for a future "entmake".

Can someone help?

Thanks

Cristian Leon
Chile

 

Search via google for CloneBlock and an Author of
John Uhden.

As for grabbing all of the entities that define a block,
one way would be to step through the block with the
(entnext) function and place each ename into a list.
Once you have all the enames you could do something
like this...

(entmake '((0 . "Block)............))

(foreach item <list of enames>
(entmake (entget item)) )

(entmake '((0 . "Endblk")........))

All "code" typed on the fly..... no checkin'


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take a block and copy within the drawing with other name (for some reasons i
need to copy blocks) is there any way?

attribute data... it's all the lines, polylines, texts, attributes, circles,
etc that compound a block and get that code for a future "entmake".

 

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Hi Cristian, it can be done (I think) with autolisp (entget, entnext,
tblobjname, etc.), but I think vlisp would be better for something like
this. You can get the data by looping through the block definition's
collection, and then make another block with copy-objects. If you are
interested, I posted a routine called rcb1 here (
http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4107443 ) that may
help. It is just rough code but includes what you are talking about and
could be pared down and cleaned up to suit your needs.
--
James Allen, EIT
Malicoat-Winslow Engineers, P.C.
Columbia, MO

take a block and copy within the drawing with other name (for some reasons i
need to copy blocks) is there any way?

attribute data... it's all the lines, polylines, texts, attributes, circles,
etc that compound a block and get that code for a future "entmake".