Blocks and Inserts - Introduction to AutoCAD 2011: 2D and 3D Design - page 184

The Explode tool

A check box in the bottom left-hand corner of the Insert dialog is labelled
Explode . If a tick is in the check box, Explode will be set on and when
a block is inserted it will be exploded into the objects from which it was
constructed ( Fig. 9.13 ).

Another way of exploding a block would be to use the Explode tool from
the Home/Modify panel ( Fig. 9.14 ). A click on the icon or entering ex at
the command line brings prompts into the command line:

Fig. 9.13 The Explode

check box in the Insert
dialog

Command: _explode
Select objects: <Object Snap Tracking on> pick a
block on screen 1 found
Select objects: right-click
Command:

And the picked object is exploded into its original objects.

Fig. 9.14 The Explode tool icon in the Home/Modify panel

P u r g e

The Purge dialog (Fig. 9.15) is called to screen by entering pu or purge at
the command line.

Purge can be used to remove data (if any is to be purged) from within a
drawing, thus saving fi le space when a drawing is saved to disk.

To purge a drawing of unwanted data (if any) in the dialog, click the Purge
All button and a sub-dialog appears with three suggestions - purging of a
named item, purging of all the items or skip purging a named item.