
In the example used in the webinar, a simple workflow is demonstrated for a dynamic title block. Now that you have an understanding of blocks, you can learn how to create your own blocks in AutoCAD. Block attributes are labels or text that attach data to a block.


Here, we’ll share some of the key insights from this AutoCAD blocks tutorial along with links to take you directly to the topic and follow along with the webinar video. Recently, Sheen In Liew and Sophia Lee of the AutoCAD team hosted an in-depth webinar to help you learn how to work with blocks in AutoCAD.

The command EXPLODE explodes the block reference to its original definition (definition entities).The following picture illustrates different methods of exploding a block with attributes, created in multiple layers and inserted into a layer with preset color (blue): Als the block appearance may change (color, linetype, transparency) depending on the method used to set properties (bylayer, byblock).

If your block has variable attributes, this standard explode will loose their values - they are replaced with attribute definitions - AttDef. When exploding blocks (block references) inserted in an AutoCAD DWG drawing you will get by default the original block definition. Four methods for exploding blocks in AutoCAD.
