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Using blocks and attributes

Using blocks and attributes - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using blocks and attributes

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- [Voiceover] In AutoCAD, there's a really neat little trick you can use, for your space numbers. Obviously, when you're placing your poly lines in your drawing, in your FM drawing, to represent your spaces, you want to be able to number them, and link them to your table data later on, when you make a table, that obviously covers all of your space data. So we'll staying in the zero, zero, ground, FM, annotate drawing. What we're going to do, we're gonna go to the Home Tab on the ribbon, we're gonna go to the Layers Panel here. And we're gonna go to Layer Properties, and we're gonna make sure that we have an FM Space Numbers Layer, which we do. But we're not gonna make that the current layer. We're gonna make zero the current layer. Because when you create blocks on layer zero, when you drop 'em into the drawing, they automatically go onto the current layer. So, what we'll do now, is we'll Close the Layer Properties Manager, like so. And what I'm going to do is, I'm gonna Zoom in where…

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