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Redefining block definitions in an AutoCAD drawing

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Redefining block definitions in an AutoCAD drawing

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our new office project.DWG file. And as you can see, I've zoomed out slightly so that we can see all of the office layout in this particular case. Now, in the previous video we created our workstation block here. As you can see, our workstation block is there on the layer, workstations. Now over here, these are just objects. As you can see, they're individual blocks that have been brought into the drawing. Wouldn't it be nice if we could work with a central kind of tool that allows us to work with all the blocks in our drawing, but also other blocks we might have used in other drawings? Well, what we have now is a thing called "the blocks palette." Now, what I'm going to do, I'm going to erase these objects, I don't need them anymore. And there's a reason for that and you'll see why in a minute. So we're going to get rid of all of these, all these desks, chairs, and plants just there like so. So select them, right click, erase them so that we've got…

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