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Accessing external blocks from the Internet

Accessing external blocks from the Internet - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Accessing external blocks from the Internet

- [Voiceover] You'll notice I'm in a completely new blank drawing this time. So what I've done is I've closed any drawings I've got open, and I've just clicked on the little + tab there, new drawing, and I've started a new blank drawing. Now in my case, that defaults to a metric drawing. It may be that you're working in the Americas for example, and it'll be an Imperial drawing template. Just defaults to whatever your actual localized units are. Now, that's fine. It's just a blank drawling, and I'm not worried about the actual drawing itself. What I'm worried about is reusing content to go into my new drawing. Now, one of the benefits we have out there in the CAD world now is the internet. Now, depending on where you work, you might work in a defense facility, so you might not have internet access, but if you do, you've got the ability to go on the internet and download block content and bring it into your AutoCAD drawings. Now what I've done is I've used the Autodesk facility for…

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