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Creating blocks - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial
From the course: Learning AutoCAD for Mac 2020
Creating blocks
- [Instructor] Oftentimes, we create shapes that we want to use over and over again like sinks for floor plans, or hardware like nuts and bolts. Instead of drawing these symbols over and over again or even trying to copy the geometry, we can create a library of objects called the blocks. These blocks are grouping of objects that can be recalled, inserted and shared among drawings. A block is a little bit more advanced, however, than just a simple group of geometry. Each instance of the block refers back to the same source 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. But it also means that we can update the geometry of the block later, and all the instances of block will update as well. We're going to start by drawing a simple desk. I'm going to draw a rectangle. Here in the middle of my…
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