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Using the Count functionality to check the number of objects in a drawing

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Using the Count functionality to check the number of objects in a drawing

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We're in a new drawing now called New Office Project Final.dwg and this is the second drawing management tool that I want to show you in this particular chapter and basically it's a really cool tool that allows you to count all the blocks in your AutoCAD drawing. Now the drawing itself is pretty simple, it's an office layout, it's got various blocks in it if we go to the view tab now on the ribbon and click on count here in the palettes panel that will open up the count palette now I'm just going to pan across a little like so, so you can see all of the new office project floor layout there and you can see that all of the different blocks in the drawing are numbered now this is really quite useful because what this is letting me know is how many of these blocks are in our drawing so I can count four chairs so I've got one two three four chairs how many desks I've got one two three how many dynamic door blocks do I have one how many monitors do I have one two three office workstations…

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