Posted by georgesbasement on Aug 05, 2017; 8:29pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/How-to-Create-a-Block-tp5715012p5715152.html

Tiny step:

I have a couple of blocks, apparently identical, created as above and saved as blocks in the Block list. They consist of the nineteen entities from my main drawing, rotated as a unit by 180 degrees, and then saved with a new name.

Now I open the original drawing, select one of my named blocks, and choose Insert Block from the Block menu in the upper toolbar. When I bring the cursor over my main drawing, the block can be seen in outline form, but it cannot be put down in any precise place because there is no "slow" panning setting that I know about, and the Move protocol is similarly flawed. This may be due to an unknown error on my part in setting the original scale of my drawing. I had drawn the outline of the original 12 by 12 inch square plate first and specified its starting point as 0,0 and its upper right hand corner as 12,12 and the units as inches, but when I open the block containing the standard drawing legend and try to import my main drawing, it shows as a tiny square. I will have to figure out how to correct the scale of my drawing so that it fits on the page outline, which I have set under the Preferences dialog.

Alternatively, when I save that block as a Block.dxf file, open my original drawing, and then try to import that Block.dxf file, I find that it has reverted to a copy of my original main drawing, not rotated and including the associated text labels of my nineteen entities, which are absent from the actual block in my block list. The changes that I made to the block after creating it (i.e., rotating it by 180 degrees) were not saved when I subsequently saved the block.