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Managing block attributes

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Managing block attributes

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- [Instructor] We're starting another drawing now called Reusing_ATTRIBUTES.dwg. Now, in the previous video we looked at creating a simple AutoCAD block called a sleeve and that was going to sit on top of a shaft in a mechanical assembly. Now, we've got the same sleeve ready to be turned into a block here but you'll notice that we've got a piece of text next to it that says SL_NAME, sleeve name. Now, that is an attribute. Now, let's have a look at that. If I hover over that, you'll see that it's an attribute definition and again, it's on layer zero. When you're creating AutoCAD blocks you can assign attributes to those blocks which gives information about the block, so in this case it's the sleeve name, so it might have a specific name in the mechanical assembly that it's going into. Now, you'll notice that the current layer again is sleeve and when we turn this into a block, it'll adopt that current layer like it did in the previous video. Before we do that though, let's add another…

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