Enhancing Your Drawing Skills
In theyrevious exercises, you removed objects from the Kitchen block simply by using the Erase command. You can also move objects from a block or Xref into the current drawing without actually erasing it. To do this, select Modify :> In-Place Xref and Block Edit...
Enhancing Your Drawing Skills
Xrefs are frequently used to import large drawings for reference or backgrounds. Multiple Xrefs, such as a floor plan, column grid layout, and site plan drawing, might be combined into one file. One drawback to multiple Xrefs in earlier versions of AutoCAD is that the...
Enhancing Your Drawing Skills
This chapter’s discussion about freezing layers mentioned that you can insert drawing files as external -derences, in a way similar to inserting blocks. To accomplish this, you use the Insert ~ External Reference (Xref)cornm.ind. The difference between Xref...
Enhancing Your Drawing Skills
You may have noticed that the Boundary Hatch command did not place a hatch pattern on the toilet seat. This is because the Island Detection feature was turned on. The toilet seat is like an island within the hatch area. The Island Detection Method radio buttons let...
Enhancing Your Drawing Skills
The previous exercise showed the effect that freezing a layer has on blocks. When the layer of a block is frozen, the entire block is made invisible, regardless of the layer assignments of the objects contained in the block. Keep in mind that when blocks are on layers...
Enhancing Your Drawing Skills
Another way of controllinc your views is by saving them. You might think of savinC views as a way of creatine a bookmark or placehglder in your drawing. You’ll . see hew to save views in the following set of’exercises.A few walls in the Plan drawing are...
