Issue: You open an older drawing (or a drawing saved by an older version of AutoCAD), and when you click on a block reference, you suddenly get a large number of boxes appearing in your drawing:
Cause: In the past, Autodesk used to create frames with blocks, so what you are seeing are all the frames associated to this older process.
Solution:
You have two options to correct this behavior:
- The simplest way to correct this issue: Type in FRAMESELECTION and set that to 0 (zero). Now when you click on the blocks, the multiple frames that appear should no longer do so.
This is a system variable, so once you set it to Zero, unless you change it back to 1, it should stay at zero and not give you any further issues. - Each time you select a block that does this, you can explode them to remove those Frames. (This method is not ideal, as it may cause the file size to grow - but will strip them out permanently)
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