Building a block library

Whenever you create a block, that block is stored in the current drawing.…In this lesson, we are going to learn how to share blocks, such that we can use…them in any drawing.…On my screen, I have some geometry that represents an office floor plan, and this…file contains several blocks.…If I move up to the Block panel, and click the Insert icon, and then open this…menu, we can see a listing of all the blocks that exist in this file.…Now, what if I wanted to insert some of these symbols into another drawing?…Let me show you how we can do that.…I'll start by closing this dialog box, and then I am going to close the current drawing.…

Take a look at the top of the screen. Remember the file name; 05_blockLib.…I will then create a new file. We will use the acad template, and this is an…architectural example, so let's adjust the units quickly.…I will open the Application menu,…I will come down to Drawing Utilities, and I will select Units.…From here, I will open the Length, Type, and we will set that to Architectural,…