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Creating a simple block with attributes

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Creating a simple block with attributes

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- [Instructor] We're starting another chapter now in our AutoCAD essential training, and we're going to be looking at attributes within AutoCAD blocks, and also AutoCAD tables, and how you can add information and annotation to them. And we've got a new drawing to start you off with, which is Attributes.dwg. As usual, you can download that from the website to follow along with the videos in the chapter. Now, we're going to be looking at creating a simple block with attributes. You'll notice there's some lines and a circle on the screen. We're going to be utilizing those to create a little setting out point block on a survey drawing. Now you'll notice, in the drawing, we have the layer zero, and also the SOP metric layer, our setting out point metric layer. We'll use that later when we bring the block into the AutoCAD drawing. In the meantime, make sure that your current drafting layer is set to zero, and select everything that's in the drawing and just make sure, on the pull-down, that…

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