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Use the new blocks palette in AutoCAD 2020

Use the new blocks palette in AutoCAD 2020 - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

Use the new blocks palette in AutoCAD 2020

- [Instructor] Welcome to another tip and trick for AutoCAD. We're going to be looking at one of the new features of AutoCAD 2020. The latest version of AutoCAD today. And that's all about block management. So, in order to manage our blocks, we've got a drawing called Workstation Layout or DWG. As usual, you know the drill, you can download that from the library to follow along with this tips and tricks video. I'm just going to zoom out a couple or notches on the wheel. And then I'm going to pan across here to the left to leave me some space on the right hand side. You'll see why in a moment. Now, in this Workstation Layout drawing, all of the elements are blocks. You can see they're all blocks and they're all just standard sample blocks that come with AutoCAD. I've just put them onto some layers in this particular drawing. So, what I'm going to do now is I'm going to go up to the layer dropdown and I'm going to say that the blocks that come in are going to go onto the furniture…

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