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240 Express tools: Replacing blocks in your AutoCAD drawings

240 Express tools: Replacing blocks in your AutoCAD drawings - AutoCAD Tutorial

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240 Express tools: Replacing blocks in your AutoCAD drawings

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another AutoCAD tip and trick. We're going to take a look at a really cool Express tool today and it's called Replace Block. For that reason, we've got a new drawing for you in the library that you can download. It's called 240_EXPRESS TOOLS_ReplaceBlock.dwg. You can see the name of it there up at the top of the screen and if you want to download the file to follow along with the video, you can. Now, when you open up the drawing, you can see that we've got a representation of two chairs. Over here, we've got our block that represents our Posh Chair. So if I click on it, right click, and go to Properties on the shortcut menu, there you go, there's the block name there, Posh Chair like so. I'll close the Properties palette, hit Escape a couple of times just to deselect. I could go to the Insert tab here and go to Insert Block and there's our Posh Chair there as well if you wanted to obviously…

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