- [Instructor] We're in a new drawing now
called New Office Project_FINAL.dwg.
The drawing itself, you'll recognize.
It's that office project that we've worked on
in previous chapters of the course.
But I want to show you a really cool drawing management tool
in newer versions of AutoCAD, especially AutoCAD 2023,
which is the version we're using for this particular course.
Now, if I go to the View tab on the ribbon,
you'll notice on the Palettes panel,
there is a Count palette available.
Now, what we're going to do,
we're going to use that Count palette,
but we're just going to check a few things first.
Jump back to the Home tab on the ribbon.
Make sure you're using the ACAD Tables layer
as your current drafting layer.
And also, you want to make sure
that you're using the appropriate AutoCAD table style.
So on the Annotation flyout here,
make sure that you're using
the Object Count table style, like so.
Then what you can do is jump back
to that View tab on the ribbon
and click on the Count palette here in the Palettes panel.
Now, this will open up the Count palette,
and this allows you to count all the blocks
that are in your AutoCAD drawing.
See, there's the count there, listing,
and there's all the blocks
that are in the drawing right now.
Now, the reason I got you to set up an ACAD Tables layer
as the current drafting layer,
and that you were using the Object Count table style,
is we can create a table
counting all of those blocks in your drawing.
So if I click on Create Table now
and tick this little box here to say
I want all of the blocks in the table,
I can click on Insert, and there's my table right there.
So I can just click, place that in the drawing, like so.
I can then close the Count palette like that.
Now, if I zoom in on the table,
can you see that all of these have background masking,
and basically, they are field data text entries
in your table.
So there's our block names there,
and there's our count there.
Now, at the moment, we've got two office workstation blocks
in the drawing.
Let me show you what I mean.
I'll double click on the wheel to zoom extents.
So we have one workstation here,
and we have another workstation right here.
This one, though, is just regular blocks, as you can see.
So what I could do here is, I could remove these like so.
They are just separate blocks at the moment.
And our workstation is made up of the blocks.
So it's basically made up of nested blocks.
So what I'll do is, I'll right-click,
and I'll erase those there like that.
What I'm going to do now is select this block,
and I'm going to mirror it.
So I'll select it, back to the Home tab,
into the Modify panel, click on Mirror.
I'll zoom in a little bit
to make sure that I'm getting the midpoint snap
and come vertically up the polar tracking line
like we've done in previous exercises in the course.
Erase the source objects?
No, I don't want to.
So what I've done now is,
I've changed the numbers of the blocks in the drawing,
because we now have another office workstation block there,
but I've got rid of those other blocks
that were basically individual blocks
in that little cubicle there in the office layout.
So if I type regen now and press Enter,
those numbers should update in the table.
And as you can see right now,
nothing seems to have changed much.
Let's save the drawing, shall we?
Let's just save that like so, and as soon as I save,
you'll notice that table updates accordingly,
saying, see now, we've got three office workstations
and numbers of things like the chairs
and the desks and the plant
have also changed, as well.
So if I just double-click on the wheel
to zoom extents again,
there's my little table showing me
exactly how many blocks I've got in my AutoCAD drawing.