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Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2021 and AutoCAD LT 2021

You're reading from   Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2021 and AutoCAD LT 2021 A no-nonsense, beginner's guide to drafting and 3D modeling with Autodesk AutoCAD

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789809152
Length 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yasser Shoukry Yasser Shoukry
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Jaiprakash Pandey Jaiprakash Pandey
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Preface 1. An Introduction to AutoCAD 2. Basic Drawing Tools FREE CHAPTER 3. Learning about Modify Commands 4. Working with Arrays and Reusable Objects 5. Managing Drawings with Layers and Properties 6. Working with Hatches, Text, and Dimensions 7. Tables, Isometric, and Parametric Drawings 8. Customization Tools 9. External References and Dynamic Blocks 10. Introduction to 3D Modeling 11. Creating Primitive 3D Shapes 12. Conversion between 2D and 3D 13. Modifying 3D Objects 14. Surfaces and Mesh Modeling 15. Paper Space Layouts and Printing 16. Rendering and Presentation

Working with blocks

Blocks are reusable content that can be used again and again in a drawing (and in other drawings). You can make these blocks and then save them for use in other drawings. An example of a block is shown here:

Figure 4.43: A sample drawing with blocks in it

In this drawing, the chair, doors, desk, computer, and telephone are blocks that have been made once and used repeatedly wherever needed. Though there are many advantages to using a block over simply copy-pasting the original symbol, the biggest advantage is the ability to modify all references of the block by modifying only one block. In the preceding drawing, if you happen to modify the chair, all the instances where the same chair block is used will modify automatically to reflect the changes made by you in the first block. In this section, we will start by making a simple door block and then move on...

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