Making and editing blocks is pretty easy.
All you have to do is select all the geometry
and the dimensions that you want included in your block
and then go to the make block feature.
So here, I've just dimensioned
and added some notes for this cutout.
I'm going to select everything
and up here I've got the block toolbar
attached so that I can use it.
I'm going to drag it out here
so we can see all of the features.
And I'm just going to click on make block.
This is going to show me all the entities
that are inside of it.
And then if I want to, I can adjust the insertion point.
So this is the point that it uses as reference
to insert it every time we use it in the future.
I'm just going to leave it at the default right now.
I'm going to click okay.
Now you can see okay, in our feature tree
underneath our sketch we have a block created.
I'm going to hit exit sketch
and control Q and then save to save my part.
(clicking sounds)
and I've got that block.
Now if I go back into the sketch
I can highlight this block, hit control C,
and then if I just hit control V,
I can copy and paste it all over the place.
(clicking sounds)
Now you can see when I click on the block
I also have the ability to scale it,
change its orientation, grab the insertion point,
or edit the block.
So this is how I edit the block.
I'll click edit right here,
it'll bring me back into the original geometry
that I had there.
I'm going to change this to a two inch cutout now.
And you can see as I do that,
all the other blocks update inside of my SolidWorks sketch.
You can also edit the block by right-clicking on the block
hitting edit block.
When you're done, you just hit the accept block button
up on the left, and then again,
accept your sketch because you edited that.
And you're good to go.
That's how you make and edit a block.