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Dynamic blocks are an amazing feature, but they can be complicated. This tutorial will teach you many techniques that you can use in your own blocks. The door will do the following: Stretch to 3 sizes This tutorial is updated for AutoCAD 2010 and 2011. Follow these steps: In a new [...] Do you sometimes want to know how many times you inserted the widget block in your drawing? Here’s a quick way: Display the Properties palette (Ctrl+1). You can attach other drawings to the current drawing to facilitate the drawing process. For example, you can attach a floor plan to a drawing of an electrical layout to make sure that you put the outlets in the right location. These other drawings are called external references, or xrefs. Sometimes, xrefs can be [...] If you would like to see where all the instances of your comp2b block are, you can select them all using the Quick Select feature from the Properties palette. This is a great technique for troubleshooting your blocks. Follow these steps: Open the Properties palette. You can use the EXPLODE command to break up the block into its components, but you don’t have control over layer, color, or linetype. The XPLODE command gives you that control. Here’s how it works: Type xplode on the command line. At the Select objects: prompt, select one or more blocks. If you select more than one [...] When you create a block in a drawing, you should think if it will be useful in other drawings. You can access that block from other drawings using the DesignCenter, but you’ll probably need to remember where the block was, in order to find it. Instead, many people create block libraries, putting several blocks [...] One of the advantages of blocks is that you can substitute one for another. Why would you do that? Your organization switches to a different part If you use blocks for this purpose, think how much faster it would be to [...] Have you ever had the experience of redefining a block and finding that the insertion point is way off? Or perhaps the block just seemed to disappear and you couldn’t figure out where it went! It turns out that how you redefine the block makes a difference. After you have exploded and changed [...] If you want to writeblock a block (use the WBLOCK command to save the block as a separate drawing file), normally, you’d start the WBLOCK command first. But then you have to choose the Block option in the Write Block dialog box and use the drop-down list to choose the block you [...] There are lots of ways to open a drawing and sometimes you may not think of the quickest way right away. Here’s my list: The OPEN command. This is the obvious one, of course. Click the Open button on the Standard toolbar. (In 2009, click Open on the Quick Start toolbar.) Or type open [...] |
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