AutoCAD® 2012 and AutoCAD LT® 2012 Essentials: Autodesk® Official Training Guide

Defining Blocks

Before drawing and copying a series of repetitive elements, you should first define them as a block. This is because you have a higher level of organizational control over blocks than you do over individual entities. In this section, you will draw a chair and a door and then define them as blocks.

Drawing a Chair and Defining It as a Block

In the following steps you will use the drawing skills you've learned in previous chapters to draw a chair. Then you will convert the chair into a block definition.

1. Go to the book's web page at www.sybex.com/go/autocad2012essentials, browse to Chapter 7, get the file Ch7-A.dwg, (or Ch7-A-metric.dwg) and open it (see Figure 7.1).

   FIGURE 7.1 Three rooms

2. Zoom into the leftmost room above the ...