Description
A block is a collection of objects you can associate together to form a single object, or block definition. You can insert, scale, and rotate a block in a drawing. You can explode a block into its component objects, modify them, and redefine the block definition.
Remarks
Blocks streamline the drawing process. For example, you can use blocks to
| • | Build a standard library of frequently used symbols, components, or standard parts. |
You can insert the same block numerous times instead of re-creating the drawing elements each time.
| • | Revise drawings efficiently by inserting, relocating, and copying blocks as components rather than individual geometric objects. |
| • | Save disk space by storing all references to the same block as one block definition in the drawing database. |
When you insert a block in your drawing, you are creating a block instance. Each time you insert a block instance, you assign a scale factor and rotation angle to the inserted block. You can also scale a block instance using different values in any coordinate (X, Y, Z) direction. Blocks make it possible for you to organize your drawing tasks in a systematic way, so that you can set up, redesign, and sort the objects in your drawings and the information associated with them.
