INSERT — Insert

Inserts a block or a drawing.

• Command: INSERT · Global name: _INSERT · Alias: I, INSERTURL
• Ribbon: Home › Block
• Ribbon: Insert › Block
• Ribbon: View › Palettes
• Menu: Insert

Inserts a block or a whole drawing. It opens the Blocks palette, with thumbnails of the blocks in the drawing, the most recently inserted ones and those in the library folders. Click a thumbnail (or drag it onto the drawing) and the block hangs from the cursor so you can place it.

Usage

1. Enter INSERT (or I) or click the button: the palette opens (or closes).
2. Choose the tab and, if needed, type part of the name in Search.
3. Click a block. If it comes from another file, its definition is copied into the drawing first.
4. Specify on screen whatever is missing, according to the palette's insertion options.

Specify insertion point or [Scale/Rotate]:

5. If the block has attributes, enter their values (Enter keeps the default value).

Tabs

• Current Drawing: the blocks defined in the drawing. Browse… inserts another DWG or DXF as a block.
• Recent: the last 24 inserted blocks, with their source file.
• Libraries: the drawings in the library folders, each one whole and with its blocks. The folder installed with the program has architectural and electrical symbols. Add Folder… adds another one; right-click its title to remove it.

Insertion options

• Insertion Point, Scale and Rotation: with Specify On-screen they are specified with the mouse; otherwise the typed values are used. Clear Uniform Scale to use different X, Y and Z scales.
• Repeat Placement: after placing the block it asks for the point again, until Enter or Esc.
• Explode: inserts the pieces of the block instead of a reference to it.

Notes

• The palette can be docked to the left or right of the drawing and set to auto-hide with the buttons in its header (◂ ▸ ◻ 📌); see The user interface.
• If the drawing already has a block with the same name, the drawing's block is used and the other file's is not copied.
• Recent blocks, folders and tool palettes are saved in bloques.toml, in the program's settings folder.
• In scripts, INSERT asks on the command line like -INSERT.

See also

-INSERT · BLOCK · ADCENTER · TOOLPALETTES · Blocks and attributes