From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 5 Working with References
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Creating blocks - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 5 Working with References
Creating blocks
When you have geometry that is repeated throughout a file, it's a perfect time to create a block. Once a block has been made, it can easily be inserted at each location where the geometry is needed. In this lesson, we're going to create some blocks. On my screen, I have a drawing that represents an office floor plan. And over here to the right, I have drawn some geometry that represents a common symbol. Lets zoom in. If I hover over these entities. You can see these are all individual objects. I would like to convert this geometry into a block. To do that I'll move up to the block panel and click the create button. I will then give my block a name. I'll call this toilet. Then in the base point area, I can identify the insertion point of the block. That's the point at which I'll be holding it, when I place it in the file. Now, I can do that by entering a specific coordinate. Probably, the easiest way is by clicking the Pick point button and then I can select a point on screen. I'm…
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