From the course: AutoCAD: Designing Dynamic Blocks
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Searching for blocks with the Content Manager
From the course: AutoCAD: Designing Dynamic Blocks
Searching for blocks with the Content Manager
- Let's take a look at the Content Explorer. An interface that uses the power of a search engine to locate content. Including block definitions. Type, Content Explorer and press Enter. That opens this panel. And if this is the first time you've ever opened it you're going to have to wait about 15 minutes for it to index your hard drive. If you want to use this on your network you would click Add Watched Folder. And then you would go to your network drive and add it here. You can add a drive letter or a specific folder within it. I'm just going to stick with the defaults which are Downloaded Content and the Sample folder. You can actually navigate through here in a hierarchical way. Much like you can in the Design Center. But that's not really necessary because you can search for content directly up here in this search bar. For example, let's say I want to insert a piano block into my drawing. I'll just type "piano", Enter and it's going to search the Watched folders for any instances…
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