Now navigate to the drawing and select blocks and you'll have your full list of drawing blocks in the palette. You can drag and drop these blocks to include them in the current drawing. Creating blocks in AutoCAD is very easy. First you must draw all the parts that will form your block.
Remember to draw all the objects on layer “0”. When you are ready to create the block, select the Create button from the Block section of the Insert tab of the ribbon menu. Using blocks can help reduce file size. AutoCAD stores block definitions in its database.
When you insert a block, AutoCAD stores only the name of the block, its location (insertion point), scale, and rotation. This can be very noticeable in large drawings. The DWG source file containing the lines of the block will be saved in the location of your choice. Users use other methods such as Insert, Palettes, ADC and Windows Drag and Drop to place their blocks, since AutoCAD is very flexible and all that.
The tool palette has many common blocks (especially dynamic blocks) that you can use directly in the drawing by simply dragging and dropping them in the drawing. There are also some useful block functions that you can find in AutoCAD Express Tools, which are only available in AutoCAD and not in AutoCAD LT. After selecting the drawing, select Blocks in the object type and you now have a collection of blocks that you can insert into the drawing by simply dragging and dropping. For example, if you use blocks to create windows on a floor plan and after adding the windows, you decide to modify the window type.
In the video you'll find great tips and step-by-step instructions on how to save a block in AutoCAD. The lines and text that make up a block are grouped in such a way that you can select the entire object (block) at once to perform actions such as placing, copying and moving the block. Next, we'll share some of the key ideas from this tutorial on autocad blocks along with links that will take you directly to the topic and continue with the webinar video. The second reason is the size of the file, since the use of blocks significantly reduces the size of the saved drawing, which in turn helps many of the drawing tasks to be done more quickly.
The difference here is that the block will be converted into a separate external drawing file for use in other CAD drawings. Blocks are one of the most important types of objects in AutoCAD and are also used very frequently in almost all types of drawings. Instead, you can save all the blocks as separate drawings in a folder and insert them from that folder. In addition to creating your own set of blocks and using the design center or the tool palette, you can also use other resources to obtain CAD blocks for your projects.
A drawing made with blocks for repetitive objects will be much smaller than a drawing that uses copied instances of repetitive objects.
