June 2011
Beginner
400 pages
9h 26m
English
book
AutoCAD® 2012 and AutoCAD LT® 2012 Essentials: Autodesk® Official Training Guide
by Scott Onstott
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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.
- 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
- Zoom into the leftmost room above the ...
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