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338 CONTENT REUSE - Synchronizing block attributes in your drawings (ATTSYNC command)

338 CONTENT REUSE - Synchronizing block attributes in your drawings (ATTSYNC command) - AutoCAD Tutorial

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338 CONTENT REUSE - Synchronizing block attributes in your drawings (ATTSYNC command)

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another tip and trick for AutoCAD. We're going to be taking a look at content reuse in this particular tip and trick, where we are reusing information stored in AutoCAD blocks, primarily blocks with attributes. We're going to be looking at the attribute sync command, or ATTSYNC as it's sometimes known. Now we've got a drawing for you. It's called 338 Content Reuse-SYNC.dwg. And as usual, you can download that from the exercise files to follow along with this particular Tips and Tricks video. Now, when you open up the drawing, you will see two blocks with attributes. They're workstations. So if you hover over them, there's a block there. It sits on the furniture layer. And there's also another block there again on the furniture layer. Now you'll notice that they've got some attributes applied already, and they are incidences or references of the same block. And the block is called workstation attributes. Now the block itself has been put in twice in the…

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