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282 Design reuse: Reusing blocks with the INSUNITS setting

282 Design reuse: Reusing blocks with the INSUNITS setting - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

282 Design reuse: Reusing blocks with the INSUNITS setting

- [Instructor] Welcome to another tip and trick in AutoCAD. And we're going to be taking a look at design reuse and using the INSUNITS setting in AutoCAD drawings. Now, we're going to look a bit at Design Center and tool palettes and blocks and things as well. But what I'd like you to do is download this 282 Design Resuse using INSUNITS.dwg file first. Download it from the library, have it open up, ready to follow along with this particular tips and tricks video. Now, the INSUNITS setting in AutoCAD is very important. I've got it up here in the little help screen there. So you type insunits, press Enter, and based on the fact that you've got internet connectivity, which I hope you have, go to INSUNITS here on the help screens, and it tells you all about the settings. So this INSUNITS variable is set when you're bringing automatic blocks and images or xrefs into your drawing. And it automatically scales them as well. So…

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