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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, 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 my block in the drawing. I'm going to use the Stretch tool here to modify this leg of the desk. I'm going to stretch it to the left by about three inches. Now I want to round these corners, so I'm going to grab my Fillet tool. I'm going to set my radius to a value of three, and now I'm going to go ahead and round these corners. I'm just pressing Return to get back in the Fillet command, and there we are. I'm going to save these changes to my block definition, and then close the window, and we can see that all the instances of the block have been updated with…

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