From the course: AutoCAD: Developing A Prefab Unit

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Setting the prefabricated unit as a DWG to be used as a block

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From the course: AutoCAD: Developing A Prefab Unit

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Setting the prefabricated unit as a DWG to be used as a block

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- We're staying in our placing the unit .dwg file and our drawing one .dwg file. Now drawing one was just a default drawing that we used to create a new 3D commercial project. A 3D model so to speak. And what we did in the previous video was in the placing the unit .dwg we set this to our top view, like so, and we made sure it was 2D Y-frame and we used the copy and paste to take this information across here into drawing one. Now there is another way that you can do this and the way that you can do it is you can go and search for the drawing itself and bring the actual drawing of the prefabricated unit in as a block into your project. Now what I'm going to do in drawing one, I'm just going to zoom out a little and just pan down so that our little prefab unit is sitting there at the bottom. Now remember, when we brought it across into drawing one, it's all it's individual objects, so we've got all our 3D objects, our…

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