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When you create blocks (also called symbols) to insert into a drawing, you need to consider what layer to use for the components that make up the blocks. Your choice depends on the results you want and you have four choices: Component Properties Insertion Results On any layer (except 0); color, linetype & lineweight [...] You can use fields (AutoCAD 2005 and later) to create automatic labels that provide information about objects. I’ve covered aspects of this topic before. In “Tutorial: Display the area of an enclosed figure,” I show how to use fields to create a label that displays an area. In “Tutorial: Create attributes,” I mention that [...] 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. Click the Quick Select button to open the Quick [...] For troubleshooting or collaborative purposes, you may need to know the named objects in your drawings, that is: Blocks Dimension styles Layers Linetypes Materials Table styles Text styles UCSs Viewports (really viewport configurations) Views Plot styles (which you see only if you’re using named plot styles) You can see all your named objects by [...] Blocks can contain attributes, which are labels with properties. For example, you can use attributes to attach price and manufacturer information to a block of an office chair. At the bottom of this tip, I link to a tutorial on creating attributes. Once you have the attributes, you can extract them to a simple [...] Tool palettes are a great way to store blocks and hatches for easy access when needed. But if you have only one instance of each block or hatch, you may find that the scale isn’t right and the block or hatch comes in at the wrong size. For example, you may need to change [...] 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 You need to create more than one version of a drawing, each with a different part If you use blocks for this purpose, think how much faster it [...] 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 the [...] |
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