TABLE OF CONTENTS Creating and inserting blocks
Using the Wblock command
Detecting blocks in a drawing
Working with AutoCAD's DesignCenter
Controlling the appearance of palettes on your screen
Computer drafting derives much of its efficiency from a feature that makes it possible to group a collection of objects into an entity that behaves as one object. AutoCAD calls these grouped objects a block. The AutoCAD tools that work specifically with blocks make it possible to do the following:
Create a block in your current drawing
Repeatedly place copies of a block in precise locations in your drawing
Share blocks between drawings
Create .dwg files either from blocks or from portions of your current drawing
Store blocks on a palette for easy reuse in any drawing
In general, objects best suited to becoming part of a block are the components that are repeatedly used in your drawings. In architecture and construction, examples of these components are doors, windows, and fixtures or drawing symbols, such as a North arrow or labels for a section cut line (see Figure 7.1). In your cabin drawing, you'll convert the doors with swings into blocks. You'll then create a new block that you'll use to place the windows in the cabin drawing. To accomplish these tasks, you need to learn two new commands.
When making a block, you create a block definition. This is an invisible entity that is...
