Exploding entities

You can convert a complex entity, such as a block or polyline, from a single entity into its component parts. Exploding a polyline, rectangle, donut, or polygon reduces it to a collection of individual line and arc entities that you can then modify individually. Blocks are converted to the individual entities, possibly including other, nested blocks that composed the original entity.

With the following exceptions, exploding an entity usually has no visible effect on a drawing:

To explode an entity

  1. Do one of the following:
  2. Select the entities to explode.
  3. Press Enter.