AutoCAD Dynamic Blocks :: Exploding Blocks With Negative Values?

Apr 24, 2013

I built a building foundation for a grading plan and I have another building that is the exact mirror of it. I have tried to mirror it. Didn't work. I created a block of the feature lines and inserted it with a -1 x value but I can't explode it. I tried the regular explode and xplode. Neither worked. I can use the the block to draw feature lines over but it just seems so much easier if I could figure out how to explode the block.

C3D 2013

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Aug 8, 2012

Here at the company I work for, we have different drawing templates for certain clients.  The templates share quite a bit of information with only a few differences.  I combined them into one dynamic block with different visibility states for each template.  But when we get ready to use a particular template, the block will need to be exploded to use all the information available. 

My question is what happens to the objects not on the current visibility state when exploded?  It seems to just disappear.  Does the exploding essentially delete all objects not visible? 

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Jul 12, 2012

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The attached file shows a simple example.

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Aug 22, 2013

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How do I manipulate a height parameter all of the dynamic blocks in the drawing from one single field? Say a field located in the drawing properties or on the drawing itself.

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I can pickout each of the blocks and change them at the same time in properites menu because they all share the same parameter name.  I would just like to have that height parameter of every block in the drawing, that has that specific parameter controled by a single field.  Which I could enter a new height at anytime that would change every block in the drawing to that height.

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Aug 2, 2012

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I need to replace this with standard static blocks based on one of two criteria. Either:

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