Inside AutoCAD® 2002

Adding Content to Drawings

The purpose of DesignCenter is to make locating existing AutoCAD objects easy. Consequently, DesignCenter provides several methods for locating and identifying premade source objects. As discussed in previous sections, by using the features available in DesignCenter, you can quickly locate existing sources of AutoCAD objects to copy into the current drawing.

After you have located a desired source object, you must copy it into the current drawing. Once copied into the current drawing, the object becomes a part of the current drawing, and can be used just as if it were originally created in the current drawing. Therefore, objects like blocks and xrefs, layers and layouts, and text styles and dimensions styles can be ...