{"id":1054,"date":"2026-01-26T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:24:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:24:41","slug":"insert-an-external-block-with-the-same-name-in-autocad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"Insert an external block with the same name in AutoCAD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you have a DWG template with a block inside with the same name as the DWG file, and you try to insert it into another DWG file, then you often get the error:<br><br><code>\"Block references itself\"<\/code><br><br>To fix this you can on the command line run this command by adding an asterix (*) before the filename with the extension &#8220;.dwg&#8221;:<br><br>Example inserting <code>MyBlock.dwg <\/code>with a block inside called <code>MyBlock<\/code> should be specified as below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>-INSERT Enter block name or [?]: *C:\\MyFolder\\MyBlock<\/code><br><br>Thereafter, is just specify insertion point, scale etc.<br><br>If there already is a block specified inside the current called <code>MyBlock <\/code>then you will have to purge this block before the above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a DWG template with a block inside with the same name as the DWG file, and you try to insert it into another DWG file, then you often get the error: &#8220;Block references itself&#8221; To fix this you can on the command line run this command by adding an asterix (*) before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakobsens.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}