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Redefining a block definition

Redefining a block definition - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Redefining a block definition

- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our ReusingContent.dwg file, and as promised at the end of the last video, we're going to redefine our lounge chair block. Now, we've already made the changes. We exploded our original lounge chair block and gave it those nice funky curved arms on the sides using the fill-it command and the polylines that formed the arms on the side of the lounge chair. Now you'll notice, if you go to the Home tab on the ribbon, in your Layers panel here, Furniture is the current drafting layer. That's fine. You don't need to be on the zero layer because these objects are already on the zero layer. So that's great. So make sure that everything that forms your lounge chair block is still on the zero layer. I'm hoping you haven't made any changes. So we've now got our new lounge chair shape. You can see we've got these nice curved arms that just look a little bit nicer, aesthetically in…

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