How To: Customize Your CAD Blocks to Work with WireCAD

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How To: Customize Your CAD Blocks to Work with WireCAD

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Menu: Advanced Tools>WireCADify>WireCADify Block

Default command line shortcut: wc


Requires an active drawing with a CAD block.

Adds the base WireCAD attribute set to the selected block, mapping your attribute data into our attributes if you choose.

1.Open a drawing with a non-WireCAD CAD block that you want to make work with WireCAD.

2.Click Advanced Tools>WireCADify>WireCADify Block.

3.You will be prompted to select a CAD block.

Here we have a CAD block with the displayed attributes (Yours).

Here we have a CAD block with the displayed attributes (Yours).

4.Select your CAD block. It must be a block and not raw entities.

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5.Map your attribute to our attributes.

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6.Select the [Descriptor Locations] button.

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Drag to reposition

Drag to reposition

Preview after repositioning

Preview after repositioning

7.Click [OK] to do it.