Hello again
I am trying to insert client step files (resaved as rhino format) and view all together, but I didn’t aware every step file may have blocked with same name. Now I am in the midde stage of all files insertion, and I want to abort insert to avoid any uncontrollable changes, or messing up of names on either the existing open file or inserting (blocks/step) files. Esc key doesn’t work. So what is the best move to do this? and sorry for confidential files to share.
The renaming of the block is only in your model - the original STEP files shouldn’t be changed just from importing them
Thanks for suggestion. So if my model have renamed after insertblock, I will need to giveup all action I did on the model, close the file without saving, purge all block files with name conflict, reopen the model file, and insert again.
I think the operative word there is “if”
like @Artstep mentioned, the block name is changed in the file you insert it to. The reference file name will never be modified by the Rhino file you are importing them to, if that is your concern.
Thanks for reply. I received the feedback, those name won’t change the original STEP file, only change on the Rhino file currently working with insert command.
Maybe “Block 01” Is just one of the nested blocks which name conflicted with another STEP file’s nested block, so one of it have to renamed differently, in the Rhino file which I am doing insert.
At the past my way to avoid name conflicts,I explode and purge all nested block, resave each STEP as Rhino files (A1,B1,C1,D1,etc and those will be block name) , insert each Rhino files as block with link method, double click the block to edit, incremental save the changes. This way I avoided name conflicts pop ups but lost all original nested block data.
