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Setting palette properties

Setting palette properties - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Setting palette properties

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- [Instructor] So we're staying in our 04_Blocks&Groups drawing and, in the previous video, we set up our properties and our scaling. So you can see now that we've got our bathtub in the drawing We've got our dining set in the drawing and we've got another bathtub just for fun. But, they're all scaled accordingly so that when you bring them in here, the bathtub, when you click on it, it comes in at the right size. We've also got the right description. We've also got the right scale when it comes in. Because we're going metric to metric right now. The tab on the pallet is metric and also the drawing is metric in millimeters. Now, obviously, there's lots of different countries that use AutoCAD. So what you would do if you were American, let's say, unlike me. I'm English, obviously. You would set it up inches to inches, for example. And again, that all works as long as you're working in the right context with the right units. Just make sure that you do that and everything will work fine.…

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