Okay,

But employer sprang for AutoCAD, so I won’t be using this software anymore.

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From: georgesbasement [via LibreCAD] [mailto:ml+[hidden email]]
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2017 3:57 PM
To: Ventruella, Del <[hidden email]>
Subject: Re: How to Create a Block

Progress:
There is a list of blocks for each drawing, which one can find by activating the Layer list and Block list from the View menu list in the top toolbar. The defaults blocks are outlines of a standard drawing with the usual legend where one would list all the scales, changes, etc.

Only new blocks that are created in the associated drawing are shown with that drawing. Therefore, after you have selected part(s) of your drawing, not only must you create the block so that you are given the opportunity to name it, but you must also save the associated drawing, or that block will disappear forever. I created a block from my nineteen entities with the protocol that appears under the Block menu item in the upper toolbar, selecting each of the nineteen items by clicking on each one and then pressing Enter, after which I was prompted to select a reference point, followed by another Enter, followed by the prompt to choose a name. That new block then appeared in the block list, only when I then saved the drawing, closed it, and then reopened it.

There's more ! I was able to open the saved block for editing in a new window, choose Rotate from the top tool bar under Modify, then choose Select All from the Select menu on the top tool bar. It then prompted me for a rotation point, which I selected, followed by another prompt to choose a reference point, again selected by clicking on a spot, after which moving the cursor caused my block to rotate wildly ... I either hit the mouse button again or pressed Enter (I forget which) followed by a dialog window which thankfully let me select the exact angle (180) as well as deciding whether to keep or delete the original (block). Than I saved it under a new name and saved the associated main drawing.

Now I find that I cannot usefully import that block into my main drawing because the block moves wildly about as I move the cursor, and once I have pinned it in anywhere remotely near my original drawing in the open window, going through the move command protocol does not move the block in any controllable way, although I could move the individual entities in my main drawing acceptably reliably.