Some of you may be utilising the Design Centre within AutoCAD, if so you may have created Blocks to reuse elsewhere on drawings. These Blocks appear with a Thumbnail (Icon) image to illustrate what the Block looks like, helping you chose, before placing.
If you then Edit a Block to update it (i.e. add or remove geometry) the Icons in Design Centre do not update accordingly.
However, if you type BLOCKICON at the command line and either type the name of the Block or select the default <*> (updates all Blocks), the Icons will update as required.
If you already have a drawing that you consider to be a standard, you may want to use the Blocks from that drawing on future versions. The easiest way to manage the Blocks is using a Tool Palette, where you can quickly access these standard Blocks from any drawing. You may think that this will be a time consuming task, dragging each Block in the drawing to the new Tool Palette, but you would be wrong.
You can simply use the Design Center and create a Tool Palette within a few clicks!
- Open the Design Center, you will find this on the View TAB of the Ribbon.
