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Using the WBLOCK command

Using the WBLOCK command - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using the WBLOCK command

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We're staying in our newofficeproject.dwg file and as you can see I've zoomed extent so that we can see all of the new office layout now at the moment you'll remember we've got this workstation block here now the other ones over here remember we exploded them and we didn't bring them back they're just original objects there's a chair plant etc now it may be that you're working with many many incidences of the same block you know hundreds of the same block especially if you're working on a complex floor plan with lots of work stations let's say you've got 600 workstations on a floor plan and you want to change all of those blocks in one go but keep a reference of that change in a separate drawing file well you can do that using the right block command the W block command and it's write block as in W R I T E as in writing with a pen you're writing the block to its own separate DWG file so if we jump to the insert tab now here on the ribbon and go to our block definition panel here and…

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