![]() I created a diagram of just the elements i wanted (sheathing, tar paper, shingles). How i created the roofing in the second view (opposite side of building). That created the roofing for the first view.Ģ. ![]() I selected those two rows of 3 shingles and copied them to the next row and so on. To place a new shingle of that type, i would use the move/copy tool to create and place a copy next to the first shingle.Īfter creating a row of 3 of them I would select and use the move/copy tool to copy the 3 to the next row of shingles. I only use the move/copy tool and not crtl short cuts. Then i would place that block using the move/copy tool. I drew a shingle and then saved it as a block. Here is some clarification in case it helps figure out what is happening. Thank you both for spending time on this. assuming it is necessary, then being able to efficiently delete the unused duplicate blocks (already determined to be outside the scope of LibreCAD development) not understanding why the operation of LibreCAD finds it necessary to create unused copies of an existing block, andĢ. As you say the copy-paste thing does not really help me much, since I have to recreate the diagram through the copy paste routine which in my case does not re-create all the needed blocks anyway (version and OS issue?).ġ. For some reason I just get all the layers and just one block copied (0.5-tab). I did not have the same experience as you when copying and pasting the desired elements to a new drawing. Yes removing them all greatly reduces the file size, which is why it is important for me to delete them, since the other quirk of LibreCAD is that very large files will not permit selection of an object. That is how I found out they were extra, and were created by the program somehow, since i did not make them. So, removing all the extra blocks reduced the file from 1.3 MB to 69 kB:Įach of the extra blocks has data and I had done the same as you suggested, testing each one to see if it was visible in the diagram. But, that of course means you would almost be starting over. If you just paste a single block of each, they can then be inserted from the Block List without creating duplicates in the list. Pasting a second time will add a subsequent set of blocks. Selecting one of each and then copying & pasting will result in a single block of each. All the others are legitimate blocks with associate entities and increases the files size, but it appears they can be safely deleted.Ĭopying & pasting to a new drawing, whether selecting all of them individually or via a select window copies all blocks to the new drawing. It appears that only "0.5-tab", "1-tab" and "3-tab" are being used in the drawing (shop-south_roofing-only_.dxf). I can't say why there are so many duplicates either, but by turning the blocks off ("Hide all blocks" in the Block List widget) and then turning them on one by one you can begin to see which ones are being used. I may do that because I might never finish these drawings using the Linux version Shop-south_roofing-copy_test.dxf shop-south_roofing-only_.dxf RE: using Windows version through Wine. ![]() Sorry about the large file with the many blocks. If you want to play with the files, they are uploaded here. Importing a file as a block was the only way to retain all layer information. I had not used this technique before because when i copy and pasted into an existing drawing with layers, the paste would loose all layer information. All the block elements that were no longer in the block list did not get saved and only the sheathing, tar paper and "0.5-tab" shingles remained. Highlighting the elements to copy also highlighted some ghost elements (invisible), in a similar configuration as the shingles, in the lower left of the drawing near the 0,0 coordinate. It removed the "1-tab" and "3-tab" blocks from the block list, even though the blocks are still visible in the drawing. That removed all blocks from the block list except for "0.5-tab" shingle block (a block of a small piece of a "3-tab" shingle). There are 54 "3-tab" shingles in each of the two drawings.įollowing your suggestion, I copied (crtl + C) and pasted (ctrl + V) the shingles, the tar paper and the roof sheathing to a new file (Involves seven layers).
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