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Creating a simple block with attributes

Creating a simple block with attributes - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD 2024 Essential Training

Creating a simple block with attributes

We're starting a new chapter now and we're going to be taking a look at attributes in blocks and working with tables in AutoCAD as well. Now for the first part of the chapter we're going to be looking at attributes in blocks and we've got a new drawing for you it's called OfficeWorkstation.dwg so if you download that drawing from the library open it up in AutoCAD and go to the model tab. When you open it up you should recognize it it's got the desk, the computer, the chair and the pot plant and we've used that in previous videos in this particular course. Now what we're going to do is we're going to take all of these blocks like we've done in previous videos and make a workstation block but what we're also going to do is add some attributes to the block itself just pop to the home tab on the ribbon make sure that attributes is your current drafting layer and what we're going to do is we're going to add some attributes to the block that give the block more description is a probably a…

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