WBLOCK

Back many versions ago it was possible to wblock a drawing to it's
existing name to clean up the database. Recent versions don't allow
this. Has anyone worked out a way to get the old capability in 2004? I
know it can be dangerous, but I'm willing to trade the danger of
occasionally losing some work against the time to wblock to a dummy
name, copy the dummy file to the original name, and erase the dummy file
name.

Thanks,

Martin

 

-wblock

 

2 menu items I use:

[Wblock Current Drawing (ENTIRE) on itself]^c^c^p(command".ucs" "W")(princ);(command "wblock" (strcat(getvar"dwgprefix")(getvar"dwgname")) "Y" "*")(princ);
[Wblock Current Drawing (Mspace) on itself]^c^c^p(setq or_tm (getvar"tilemode"))(princ);(setvar"tilemode" 1)(princ);(command".ucs" "W")(princ);(command "wblock" (strcat(getvar"dwgprefix")(getvar"dwgname")) "Y" "" "non" "0,0" (ssget "X" (list(cons 67 0))) "")(princ);(command"zoom" "E");(command"delay" 1000);(setvar"tilemode"or_tm)(princ);

 

Hi Martin,

Use the command line version of the WBLOCK command (start using
-WBLOCK). This allows the current drawing to be saved and replaced with
the * option.

Regards
Rakesh

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Thanks for the responses.

Martin