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Using Quick Select to find blocks

Using Quick Select to find blocks - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using Quick Select to find blocks

- [Instructor] We're starting a new chapter now in our AutoCAD Preparing AutoCAD Drawings for Revit course and what we're going to look at now in our CAD drawing is optimizing any AutoCAD blocks that might be in the drawing. So you should recognize the drawing, however, there is a new drawing that you can download from the website and you can see at the top of the screen there, it's 05_Office_ReceptionArea.dwg. So download it and as usual follow along with the video using the drawing, saving the drawing as you go. Now the first thing we're going to look at is a very underrated and underused tool in AutoCAD. It's called Quick Select and it will actually allow me to find all of the AutoCAD blocks in this drawing in one go rather than having to drive around the drawing and think oh that window there might be a block. So if I hover over it, yeah, it is a block. It's a block reference and it's on the layer A-GLAZ, G-L-A-Z. Now obviously you could go around and try to find them one by one…

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