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Creating tool palettes from drawings in AutoCAD DesignCenter

Creating tool palettes from drawings in AutoCAD DesignCenter - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Creating tool palettes from drawings in AutoCAD DesignCenter

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- [Instructor] Welcome, once again, to another tip and trick in AutoCAD. We're going to have a little look now at basically taking our block data from a drawing and converting it into a tool palette. Now, some of you may or may not have used tool palettes before. They're a very useful tool because they allow you to drag and drop data in and out of drawings. Now, I've got a drawing open here. It's all in inches, I hasten to add. Now I know that goes against the grain because I'm a Brit and I use metric millimeters most of the time, but it just made my life easier because all of these blocks that I've inserted into this drawing are all originally in inches. Now you'll notice we've got some lovely things in there, like a piano, for example. Now all of these are just on layer zero. This is just a bog standard inches template drawing, and it's all on layer zero. It's actually using the ACAD, A-C-A-D dot DWT file to create the drawing. It's just a blank drawing I've dropped these blocks…

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