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Design Reuse: Using PDFs in your drawings

Design Reuse: Using PDFs in your drawings - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Design Reuse: Using PDFs in your drawings

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- [Instructor] We're starting another Tip & Trick for AutoCAD, and what we're going to look at is the really useful features that AutoCAD has to allow you to use PDFs in conjunction with your AutoCAD drawings. So I've got AutoCAD open, and I've literally got a blank drawing open called Using PDFs.dwg. You can download that from the library, to follow along with this Tips & Tricks video. Now you'll notice it might be a blank drawing, but we've got a few layers available for you in the drawing. We've got Objects_DWG, which we don't need right now. What we do need to do is make sure that our PDF Underlay Layer is the current drafting layer. Now we do have a PDF of a drawing for you to use as well. So what we're going to do now, we're going to go to the Insert tab on the ribbon, like so. We're then going to click on Attach, here. Now as soon as we attach, like so, you'll see that we've got Using PDFs in Your Drawings, and that's the folder where the PDF is. Now, we need to just go here…

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