I feel like many AutoCAD users are familiar with the EXPLODE command and likely use it as their go-to command when they need to split up the components of blocks and objects in day-to-day drafting. If you’re one of these users and haven’t had the plea

you can edit blocks with REFEDiT or BEDIT commands provided the block and/or the objects in it are not on locked layers, and the block objects are not "proxy objects" from a vertical version of AutoCAD. If you see something else going on then sh

When try to explode a block, the explode option if faded in the menubar or the following message appears on the command line 'Could not be exploded.' Beginning with AutoCAD® 2006, the Allow Exploding option was added to the Block Definition dialo