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Swap and update blocks

Swap and update blocks

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Swap and update blocks

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- [Instructor] One of the really neat features of AutoCAD Electrical is the ability to swap out blocks from the icon menu or elsewhere in your existing drawings. So I'm in the DEMO04.dwg file in the WDDEMO project and what I'm going to do is I'm going to zoom in on the top right part of this ladder here. And if you just pane a little bit, can you see that we've got a green pilot light there and a green pilot light there. I'm going to swap those out for red pilot lights. Let's have a look at that and see how that works. I'll go up here to this icon here, on the edit components panel in the schematic tab. And this allows me to swap a block, update a block or do a library swap. I'm going to swap a block one at a time. There's only two do so I don't need to do a drawing wide or a project wide. I'm going to pick a block from the icon menu and I'm going to retain the old block scale. I'm also going to auto retag and use the same attribute names. So when I click on OK, now it takes me to the…

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