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Creating and inserting a block

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Creating and inserting a block

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- [Narrator] We're staying in our reusing content .dwgfile, and as you can see, we've still got our hinge, our bolt, and our keyhole available, but they're now exploded into their original lines, arcs, circles, et cetera. Make sure that you've got no groups as well. Just jump into the groups panel, go to group manager. You can see there's no groups in there that are leftover from the previous video. Click on, OK there like so. Now, what we're going to look at is creating blocks. So, these are all made up of individual AutoCAD objects at the moment. So, what we're going to do, we're going to create a block of each of these. We're going to create a block for the hinge, a block for the bolt, and a block for the keyhole. And it's very easy to do, but there's a little trick involved. We're going to select all of the objects using either a crossing or window selection. We're then going to go to the layer drop down on the layers…

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