Certainly there is some workaround, but this is much better than nothing. You can’t explode anonymous block or insert it into your drawing. The easiest way is to make your whole drawing as an anonymous block. There is some workaround available to make it less easy for people to steal your work. AutoCAD 2016 doesn’t even provide password protection anymore. Unfortunately, there are no features in AutoCAD that can protect your drawing. We need to figure out how to protect our DWG before sending it.

However, sometimes the requirement is DWG. But they can’t modify it or use the drawing for their design. These file formats can be reviewed and people can add markup/redlining if necessary. The standard practice is to share our drawing in PDF or DWF format. At least, we don’t want to make it easy for them. When it comes to AutoCAD drawing, the question is how we can protect our drawing and don’t let people take what’s inside.

BBURST and EXPLODE should then work.It’s common that people want to protect their intellectual property. You can then insert this new definition back into the drawing and redefine the existing definitions. (Optional) If you are finished using the Block Editor, click Close Block Editor. On the Block Editor toolbar, click Save Block Definition. In the Properties palette, under Block, click Allow Exploding. In the Block Editor, make sure nothing is selected.

To open a drawing file saved as a dynamic block in the Block Editor.

To open a drawing file saved as a block (not dynamic) in the Block Editor.

To open an existing block definition in the Block Editor.

Use one of the following procedures to open a block definition in the Block Editor: My solution was found in the help files for Autocad 2008 as below: I realise this is late but I came across this thread whilst having the same problem.

Any way to explode a block in autocad