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Inserting the block from the tool palette

Inserting the block from the tool palette - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Inserting the block from the tool palette

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- [Instructor] Last but not least, in the workflow and the process of creating your tool palette is inserting the block from the palette into the drawing. So I'm staying in the 08_Developing_Part2.dwg file, obviously for this particular chapter, which is developing your tool palette part two. So they're kind of tied together. And we've got our little Door 900 millimeter block there. Now, when you insert into the drawing itself be careful because the scaling needs to be set correctly here in the tool palette. So you right-click there, properties. You know that the scale is one when it brings it into your metric drawing. So you know that, that door is in millimeters, you know that your drawing is in millimeters, scale is one to one, so that will come in at the right size. Also, right-click and go to your options. Make sure that your source content units here for your insertion scale are set to millimeters and your target drawing units are set to millimeters. Make sure that everything…

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