Creating blocks

Reuse of sketches is one of the best ways to save time and be more efficient in SolidWorks.…Creating blocks is as easy as selecting the elements and choosing Make Block.…We can then use that block in other sketches.…On the screen I've got some cutouts for a motherboard, and we've got like a DVI…and HDMI and some USB ports, Ethernet ports, some audio jacks that have all kind…of been laid out here.…Now I can take this and turn it into a block and we can easily reuse this data in…another sketch or another feature.…

To do so, let's make sure we got the block toolbar turned on. If we don't, just…right-click in the gray area and make sure the Blocks is turned on.…And then the first thing here is called Make Block.…Click on that. It allows us to go here and select which items I want to include.…So I'm just going to window around all these, select OK, and notice it gives…us all the entities that are going to be there.…The next thing is Insertion Point.…So click here and it's a little manipulator.…I can just drag this around. I am just going to snap that to my origin right now.…