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Dialog boxes

- [Instructor] We're staying in our interface.DWG file and what were going to look at now in the AutoCAD user interface is dialog boxes. Now you'll be working with lots of different dialog boxes in AutoCAD when you use lots of different commands. I'm actually going to utilize a command called create block. Now create block allows me to bring up the dialog box where I select some objects that might become an AutoCAD block. Now we're not going to actually create an AutoCAD block. What I want to do is show you the dialog box when it pops up on the screen so that you kind of know the format of a dialog box in AutoCAD. So I'm going to go to the insert tab on the ribbon here, like so. And we're still in our interface.DWG file as we have been for this particular chapter. That won't change. But you'll notice I've got the create block command here on the block definition panel on the ribbon. So if I click on the little fly out there I've got create block and I've got write block. We're going…

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