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Accessing external block content

Accessing external block content

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Accessing external block content

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In this video, we'll explore two different interfaces for accessing content that's outside the current drawing. Namely we'll use Design Center and Content Explorer. To open the Design Center, you can type ADC Enter, or you can go to the Insert tab and click this icon right here. It opens up this palette based interface that has a hierarchical listing of files on the left. We can drag this over and see more of it. This is a listing of the files on this computer, and it also gives you access to drives on your network. So you can access your drawing files on your server, for example. By default, it opens up in the AutoCAD Samples subfolder. Let's expand the English US subfolder. And then within that, let's open up Design Center. In here, you'll find a list of drawing files. And, strangely enough, you can expand these drawing files even further. Normally in the Windows Explorer, this would be all you would see as a single icon. But, in the design center you have the ability to expand…

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