{"id":157,"date":"2005-10-27T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2005\/10\/27\/autocad-2006-exploding-blocks-has-my-watch-stopped\/"},"modified":"2008-04-11T07:16:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T15:16:22","slug":"autocad-2006-exploding-blocks-has-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2005\/10\/autocad-2006-exploding-blocks-has-my\/","title":{"rendered":"AutoCAD 2006 Exploding Blocks &#8211; Has my watch stopped?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a couple of feedback items on my post about Exploding and Scaling check box locks in 2006&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I made a block in LT 2006 and checked that it could not be exploded or inserted with different x-, y-scale values, saved the dwg, opened in Acad 2005 and could explode the block, scale it and insert it with different x-, y- and z scale values.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>From Ragnar Thor<o:p><\/o:p> Mikkelsen &#8211; designdata, Norway<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another reader noted that you actually could explode blocks in 2006 even if someone sets them up to not explode&#8230; Shhh&#8230; Don&#8217;t tell anyone&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Just use the edit block function and in the properties bar re-check that box and then exit out of the function. 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