From the course: Learning AutoCAD for Mac 2019
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Creating Blocks - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial
From the course: Learning AutoCAD for Mac 2019
Creating Blocks
- [Instructor] Oftentimes we create shapes that we want to use over and over and over again like sinks for floor plans or hardware like nuts and bolts. Instead of drawing these over and over again and even trying to copy the geometry, we can create a library of objects called blocks. Blocks are grouping of objects that can be recalled, inserted, and shared among drawings. A block is a little bit more advanced however than a simple group of geometry. Each instance of the block references the same base geometry. This gives us the benefit of both a smaller drawing as AutoCAD only calculates the main geometry once and then only the location of all the references of the block. It also means we can update the geometry of a block later on and all of the instances of the block will update as well. Let's start with drawing a simple desk. I'm going to draw a rectangle and them I'm going to draw another rectangle to signify sort of the L shape leg of the desk. I'll find the block tool here and…
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