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Create, manage, and edit block definitions

Create, manage, and edit block definitions - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Create, manage, and edit block definitions

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- [Instructor] We're in our New Office Proposal_BLOCKS.dwg file. And as you can see, we've got a simple office layout. And what we're going to do in this office layout is create, manage, and edit some block definitions. This is going to include things like attributes, how we set up a block to be by layout or by block, and also how we can synchronize our block attributes using the ATTSYNC command. Now let's have a look at creating some blocks quickly first of all. Now you'll notice in the home tab on the ribbon, in the layers panel, my current drafting layer is workstations. Leave that as it is, but click on the layer dropdown, scroll up a bit to the top. You'll see there's an attributes layer. It's frozen at the moment. Just click on the snowflake. That'll thaw it out. And you can see the attributes appear on the screen. Click back in the drawing area and you can see there's our attributes there and they're on the…

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