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is this the case 'chicagoro' wrote in message news:2. picture 1), or continue to select the objects which you want to explode. Select objects: press ENTER or click the right mouse button to finish the explosion (e.g. If layer '0' is frozen or off they will seem to disappear. Also question is, how do you explode in Autocad IN ZWCAD+, we use the Explode command to break a compound object ( such as block, polyline and so on) into its component objects. The command ExplodeIP ('inherit properties', from the ExplodeIP utility - see Download) sets the properties of exploded objects to the layer properties of the layer which hosted the given block reference. When you explode a block the entities may go to layer '0'.
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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.