If you aren’t organized in how you label each drawing for printing, then recipients won’t have the necessary information for them. Imagine dealing with a dozen CAD design files with detailed information outlining a single part. Remember that Blocks can be scaled, clipped using the XCLIP or CLIPIT commands, etc so consider other options before exploding them.Part 13 of 13 in our How To Use AutoCAD seriesīecause AutoCAD projects are highly detailed and require accuracy, being organized with how you work is important. If they have been created as blocks is for a reason, so exploding them might screw up someone else's effort. The Block should explode.Īs I said before, be careful about exploding blocks (specially in a multiuser environment). Now select the Block, enter X for EXPLODE. You will see that the 'allow exploding' option is unselected. Then on the drop down list search for the block you are unable to explode. The trick is to open the block definition dialog box (type 'b', or 'block') without selecting anything. If you don't know that this exists, you might find yourself unable to explode a block that you really, really, really need to explode (I am no fan of Block exploding, I mostly hate people who do that as a hobby, but sometimes you do need to explode them). One of this is the option to not allow the block to be exploded. When a Block is created there are several options that sometimes are overlooked.

Do you find yourself unable to explode certain Blocks? Don't despair, the solution is easier than you might think.

How to explode a block in autocad 2015