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Redefine a block definition - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2020 Essential Training
Redefine a block definition
- [Instructor] We're staying in the ReusingContent.dwg file, and I've left it in exactly the same state as it was at the end of the last video. Now, you'll remember that I did a bit of a lead-in into this video, in the last video, as well. We did the Explode, and what we did was we altered the geometry of the exploded block here, which is now on the white layer zero. Now, we're going to look now at re-defining a block in an AutoCAD drawing. So, at the moment, our Keyhole block looks like this, and it's a block reference. Let's go up to the Block panel in the Home tab on the ribbon, and click on Create Block. Now, you can redefine any block just by clicking on this flyout, here. So there's Keyhole there, like so, okay? And we can specify a new point, new objects, and so on. So let's go back to our pick point, and I'm going to utilize the center snap there, and left-click. Then you need to select the objects that are going to create the Keyhole block. So, select objects, you click on…
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