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Updating blocks

Updating blocks - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Updating blocks

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- [Instructor] Now let's say that after placing all of these in the floor plan, the customer decides that they want a different desk size. Or the manufacturer changes the desk size, or maybe they round the corners. I'm going to select one of my blocks, doesn't matter which one. Right click and click on Block Editor. From here, I'm actually editing the block definition itself, where the source geometry that's being referenced in all the other instances of the block remain. So I'm going to use the Stretch tool to stretch this leg of the desk here. So let's grab it here, select it there, pick my point, and I'm going to stretch it in about 3 units. So at 3, angle 180. There we are, just make that a little bit narrower. Now I'm going to go ahead and round the corners as well. So I'm going to go grab my Fillet tool, I'm going to type in R for radius, and I'm going to give it a radius of three. And now I can just go around and I…

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