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AutoCAD 2025 Best Practices, Tips, and Techniques

You're reading from   AutoCAD 2025 Best Practices, Tips, and Techniques Boost productivity with interface tips, dynamic blocks, annotations, customizations, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837636723
Length 444 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Using All of the AutoCAD Interface 2. Chapter 2: Using More of the AutoCAD Interface FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Taking Advantage of Annotation 4. Chapter 4: Making the Most of Dimensions 5. Chapter 5: Making Tables Work for You 6. Chapter 6: Discover More About Blocks 7. Chapter 7: Discover the New Block Tools 8. Chapter 8: Learn to Automate with Dynamic Blocks 9. Chapter 9: Taking Layers to the Next Level 10. Chapter 10: Enhance Your Knowledge of Reference Files 11. Chapter 11: Enforcing Your CAD Standards 12. Chapter 12: Making the Most of Common Commands 13. Chapter 13: Using Commands to Improve Performance 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with Attributes

This section will look at how to do more with the Attributes in your blocks. Assuming you all know how to use ATTRIBUTE objects in a block, we will look at how to use Multi-line Attributes, control the order of those Attributes, and quickly edit an ATTRIBUTE. We will also learn how to use Annotative Attributes, sync changes, globally edit Annotative scales, and scale locations. How can you keep that data when you need to explode that block once your block attributes are populated with data?

Multi-Line Attributes

To improve block functionality, you can create blocks with attributes that contain multi-line strings of text that use UNDERLINE, OVERLINE, and FIELDS:

  1. Open the 6-2_Working with Attributes.dwg file.
  2. Using the In-Canvas View Controls, restore the Custom Model Views | 1-Multi-line Attributes named view.
  3. Using the Home ribbon and the Blocks panel, select the Blocks expanded panel to access the Define Attributes command.
  4. Define...
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