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Menu: Basic CAD Tools>Blocks>Insert Block Into Drawing

Default command line shortcut: insert

Related Settings:

 None

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This tutorials assumes you have a custom titleblock in dwg format and that it occupies the Model Space of the dwg file. Further that you know the path to the file containing the titleblock file.

 

1.Open the drawing where you want to place a custom titleblock.

2.Switch to the Layout in which you intend to place your custom page border.

3.Click CAD Tools>Blocks and Inserts>Insert  Block into Drawing.

4.Select [Browse].

5.Browse to the dwg that contains your custom title block in the Model Space.

6.Check Insertion Point - Specify Later. This will let us manually place the inserted block in the layout space.

7.Uncheck Scale - Specify Later and set the X,Y,Z scale to 1.

8.Uncheck Rotation - Specify Later and set the Angle to 0.

9.Click [Insert It].

10.The dialog will be dismissed so you can drop the insert in the drawing space.

11.Now you will need to place a Viewport so you can see the model space.

12.Click View>New Viewport and select the logical boundaries of the viewport within the titleblock you placed earlier.

13.Double-click the viewport to activate it for zooming and panning and use the mouse wheel or zoom commands to position the viewport over the model space.