AutoCAD provides a number of ways to insert a block or a whole drawing file, but the most commonly used and most flexible is the Insert dialog box. To insert a block, follow these steps:
Most of the fields that you will use for title block data are in the SheetSet field category and the field names begin with “CurrentSheet”. Using the CurrentSheet fields in your title block enables AutoCAD to read the values that apply to any sheet in which the title block is inserted. To Insert a Drawing Border With Title Block (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset) Click Annotate tabSheet panelTitle Border. In the Drawing Borders with Title Block dialog box. Specify the insertion point of the drawing border. In the Edit Attributes dialog box, edit or add entries.
After you insert a block, all the objects displayed in the block reference behave as a single object. When you select any object in the block reference, AutoCAD highlights all the objects in it.
AutoCAD gives you three more ways to insert a block:
Although the preceding paragraph refers to the Tool Palettes window, palettes in AutoCAD aren’t like regular windows or dialog boxes. They’re modeless, so they can stay open while you carry out other tasks outside them. The official programmer-ese term for the palette is enhanced secondary window, or ESW.
Title Block Example
Be careful when you insert one drawing into another. If the host (or parent) drawing and the inserted (or child) drawing have different definitions for layers that share the same name, the objects in the inserted drawing take on the layer characteristics of the host drawing.
For example, if you insert a drawing with lines on a layer named Walls that’s blue and dashed into a drawing with a layer named Walls that’s red and continuous, the inserted lines on the Wall layer turn red and continuous after they’re inserted. The same rules apply to linetypes, text styles, dimension styles, table styles, multileader styles, and block definitions that are nested inside the drawing you’re inserting.
To modify a block definition after you’ve inserted at least one instance of it, use the BEdit (Block Editor) command; choose Block Editor in the Block panel on the Home tab, or simply double-click a block insertion.
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