- [Instructor] We're staying in our
New Office Project .DWG file.
And as you can say, I've left it zoomed in
to extents as it was in the previous video.
And in the previous video
we created our little workstation block here,
that I've just highlighted.
So, I'll just hit escape to deselect that for the moment.
What we're going to do now is we're going to remove
all of these objects here and replace them
with the workstation block here, like so.
So, I can just select all of these.
I'll just use a little crossing window there
and a crossing window there.
I'll just hit the delete key, or you can just right click
and erase those objects.
Now the good thing about this is I can just click on this,
like so and I can now copy this very quickly
and very easily.
So, what I'm going to do now is I'm going to right click
and copy selection.
I'm going to click there and I'm just going to pop that
sort of over here somewhere 'cause I need to rotate it.
It needs to be in a different orientation,
otherwise no one's going to be able to get in there, are they?
So, what I can do now is I can just pop that here,
like so, and then press enter to finish.
And then what I'll do is I'll rotate
this particular workstation.
So I'll click on it, click on the grip,
right click and rotate.
And can you see there, I can rotate that quite happily
and easily just using that grip.
I'll drag downwards, mow on the polar tracking,
can you see that coming downwards
and click and I've rotated that.
I click on the grip again, bring it up to this corner here
and that's rotated nicely, like so.
Now what I am going to do is I'm going to mirror this
and set it up in a different orientation
just purely because I want to
and I'm doing that because I've got the workstation blocks
and it's so much quicker and easier to do it.
So, I'm going to go over it to the mirror command.
So, that's home tab on the ribbon,
into the modify panel, click on mirror.
I've only got to select the one object to mirror now,
very quick and easy press enter to confirm.
Remember, when you're mirroring,
I'm going to use that little midpoint there on the wall
click there, come vertically upwards,
click there like so, do I want to erase the source objects?
No, I don't.
Now I've got some really nice little offices
all set up, little cubicles in each
particular part of the office.
Everybody's got their own little individual office
in their cubicle all set up
and they're all works stations like that
on the works stations layer.
So how do I edit this block?
Well, you'll remember when we created the block
there was that little tick box that I told you
not to tick, open in the block editor.
So if I now select this block like that
and I right click on the shortcut menu,
I can go into the block editor
and there's our block in the AutoCAD block editor.
Now all of this block authoring palette here,
we can ignore for the moment,
that's for the creation of dynamic blocks,
we'll touch on that later.
All I want to do is edit my block in the block editor.
So I've got my block open.
The only thing I want to change is I want to select
the computer block here.
Notice we're broken down into our original blocks again now,
and I'm going to select the computer
and I'm just going to delete it.
So it's a right click and erase.
I don't want that in the block definition anymore.
So what I can do now is then close the block editor here,
on the ribbon and it'll prompt me,
do I want to save the changes to the workstation block?
Yes I do.
So, I'm going to click on save the changes.
Takes me back into the drawing.
And this is benefit of reusing content
in AutoCAD with AutoCAD blocks.
Not only has it updated this block
but it's updated all the other incidences of the block.
As you can see, the works stations there have all updated.
None of them have got a PC on the desk anymore.
And then down here I can remove this PC like so,
just simply select it, right click and erase.
And we're going to upgrade the PCs
and they're going to have flat panel monitors and so on.
And we'll possibly bring that in when we edit
the block next time.
And we'll also bring in a new computer block down here
for the reception area and the desks there as well.
That's how quick and easy it is to edit a block in AutoCAD.
Just use that block edits tool, select the block,
right click into the block editor, edit the block.
Once you're done, save it, save the changes
and the block will update across the entire drawing.
Imagine if I had 600 works stations to edit
instead of just three that would've been done,
literally in moments, it would've taking me a lot longer
if they were all individual blocks
and individual little computers on each desk.
So that's where that block editor to allow you to
edit your blocks is an extremely useful feature in AutoCAD
when you're working with your drawings.