From the course: AutoCAD: Advanced Dynamic Blocks
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Copying blocks from DWGs using the Blocks palette (ACAD 2020 only) - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Advanced Dynamic Blocks
Copying blocks from DWGs using the Blocks palette (ACAD 2020 only)
- [Instructor] We're staying in our Simple Door-36-in.dwg file. And I've left it in the same state as it was at the end of the last video. We've got the two blocks down in the bottom left corner there, the white one and the orange one on the different layers, as we've done previously. But I've also left the Blocks palette open. Now, I must stress again, this is an AutoCAD 2020 feature. It's not available in any other older version of AutoCAD. So don't try and bring up the Blocks palette for example, in say, AutoCAD 2015. It's just not there. Now, the benefit of the Blocks palette, and I want to show you how it works, is that it allows you to work, not only with the current drawing on this tab here, but recent drawings that you may have been using, and any other drawing. You can go and search for Blocks using the Browse button here in Other Drawings. I'm going to go into the Current Drawing tab and look at the block that I have available in my Simple Door-36-in.dwg file. And it's the…
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