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Using WBLOCK

Using WBLOCK

- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our reusing content.dwg file. In the previous video, we looked at how we redefined our block our lounge chair block, this block right here. What we're going to look at now is another way of redefining it, but more importantly another way of redefining it so that we have a separate drawing of our redefined block that we can then insert into any other drawing. It's not restrained to this particular reusing content.dwg file. It's a really cool command in AutoCAD called WBLOCK. Now, if I go to the Insert tab on the ribbon and just click here under Create Block in the block definition panel, right block is the WBLOCK command there but you can just type WBLOCK as well rather than having to go find it. So I'm just going to hit Esc to lose that little dropdown menu there. And again, I'm going to zoom in a little bit closer to my little funky lounge chair block. Now, WBLOCK is…

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