Chapter 13. Creating and Using Blocks
Blocks are a very powerful feature of AutoCAD 2002. They enable you to define an object or collection of objects that can be inserted into a drawing over and over, without having to create the object or objects again from scratch. They also can significantly reduce a drawing’s file size. More importantly, although a drawing may contain hundreds of insertions of a particular block, if it becomes necessary to edit the blocks, AutoCAD requires only that you edit a single block definition. When that block is redefined, the hundreds of instances of the inserted block will automatically be updated. The new changes ...
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