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274 Design reuse: Working with the Blocks palette and blocks libraries (AutoCAD 2022)

274 Design reuse: Working with the Blocks palette and blocks libraries (AutoCAD 2022) - AutoCAD Tutorial

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274 Design reuse: Working with the Blocks palette and blocks libraries (AutoCAD 2022)

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- [Instructor] We're in another tip and trick for AutoCAD today. We're going to take a little bit more of a deeper dive into Design Reuse in an existing AutoCAD project, in a drawing. For that purpose, we have a new drawing for you. It's called 274_DESIGN_REUSE_PROJECT.dwg. So, download the file from the library to follow along with this particular tips and tricks video. Now, in some of my previous tips and tricks, I've talked about how you set up the blocks libraries for the blocks pallette in AutoCAD. So, what we're going to do, first of all, we're going to go to the insert tab on the ribbon, into the block panel, click on the fly out for insert, and just click on recent blocks. That will open up your blocks pallette, and there's mine on the left. Now, in our existing project drawing, we've got two cafe counters, and we've got six chairs. Now, these chairs are a block reference, but they look more like an office chair, and they are an office chair, because that's where we brought…

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