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Creating and using blocks

Creating and using blocks - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Creating and using blocks

- I'm staying in the 11_ReusingContent.dwg file and I'm sure you've saved it somewhere and you're working along, following along with the videos. Now, in the previous video we looked at grouping objects together. We're going to look at something similar, but it's going to be called an AutoCAD Block. An AutoCAD Block is a group of AutoCAD entities joined together to form an object. So you can see in this particular drawing, and I like this drawing for this reason, we have three simple objects that we want to make into blocks. We have a hinge, a bolt, and a keyhole. So you can see that each of these made up of all its individual AutoCAD entities arcs, circles, polygons, lines and so on. Now, what we're going to do for this particular example is create a block of the bolt in the middle. So, zoom in a little bit first like that. Make sure you can see all of the bolt like that. Now, what I'm going to get you to do next goes against what I told you to do in previous videos. I'm going to ask…

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