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349 CONTENT REUSE - Using the COUNT command to tabulate the block count in a drawing

349 CONTENT REUSE - Using the COUNT command to tabulate the block count in a drawing - AutoCAD Tutorial

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349 CONTENT REUSE - Using the COUNT command to tabulate the block count in a drawing

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- [Instructor] We're going to take a look now at a really useful little tool in AutoCAD as part of our AutoCAD tip and trick for today. And that's all about counting blocks in your AutoCAD drawings. Now, this has been a feature in AutoCAD now for some time and we've got a drawing for you to use. It's called 349 Content Reuse-Counting Blocks.dwg. See the name of the file at the top of the screen there. And as usual, you can download it from the library to follow along with the tips and tricks video. Now the drawing we have is a fairly substantial floor plan with lots of blocks in it. So if we zoom in and look at some of these desk layouts, you can see that we've got chairs, computers, phones, and so on. Now the whole idea of having a drawing like this is you are reusing those blocks over and over again. So things like your doors, you'll notice it's a door there, top right, you've got your chair, your telephone, et cetera.…

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