Expert: Bill DeShawn - 3/21/2011

Question
This seems to be a recent problem, with blocks that have been created in-house.  When trying to explode some blocks, that themselves may have various blocks within them, the whole block just disappears! I have checked all layering to ensure that nothing is turned off, and tried regenerating the drawing but to no avail - Any other ideas please?

Answer
David:
If you explode a block, the entities will generally return to the layers they were originally created on. In this case, turning all of your layers on and regenerating your drawing might cause the entities to show up. Try Zoom Extents after exploding.


If the block contained a 3D solid and when you explode it, change the view type to realistic and verify.

If this doesn't resolve the issue, please send me an email and  attach the drawing file.  For my email address, please go to my website:
http://my.sterling.net/~bdeshawn
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Bill DeShawn
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