Chapter 3
Building the Real World One Block at a Time
Drawings are made of geometry that is arranged in specific ways to represent a part to be manufactured, a building to be constructed, or even the land on which a new highway might be built. No matter what type of drawings you create, your drawings most likely consist of many object groupings that represent objects in the physical world.
Instead of dedicating time to re-create the geometry each time, you can create the objects once and store them as a block definition. Block definitions are another type of nongraphical object that can be in a drawing, much like text and dimension styles.
In addition to geometric objects, block definitions can contain attribute definitions, which allow you to ...
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