From the course: AutoCAD: Designing Dynamic Blocks
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Using DesignCenter to access a drawing's block tables
From the course: AutoCAD: Designing Dynamic Blocks
Using DesignCenter to access a drawing's block tables
- In this video, we'll examine the DesignCenter, which provides an interface that allows you to access block definitions from other drawing files. Type "adc," which stands for Autodesk DesignCenter, and press Enter. Open up your C Drive under Program Files, Autodesk, AutoCAD, and you can actually navigate anywhere in your file system or your local area network. For the sake of this demonstration, I'm just going to use a sample file, which is located in here, under English US, in my case, and then DesignCenter, and here we have a list of drawing files. I'm gonna just drag this pane over so we can see them better. These are all .dwg files, and when you look at drawing files in the file manager that's part of Windows, you don't normally see "+" symbols next to them. We're seeing that because we can expand these here. Let's open up the Home-Space Planner, and in there you can see we have access to all kinds of different tables. For example, we can access Layers, DimensionStyles, and so…
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