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Replacing blocks in your drawings

Replacing blocks in your drawings - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Replacing blocks in your drawings

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- [Shaun] We're staying in our "New Office Project.dwg" file, and I want to show you a really cool new feature available in this version of AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2026, and the last version of AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2025, and it's a thing called Block Replace, or B Replace is the actual command that you can potentially type in and press Enter. Now, we're still in the "New Office Project.dwg" file that has various blocks in it. There's our redefined workstation block. We've got a block there that is our plant on the Plants layer. And what I'm going to do is show you how to replace one block with another quickly and easily. Now, before we do that, go to the Home tab on the ribbon, go to the Layer dropdown, and select the Plants layer. Now, what we're going to do, and it's very, very simple, we're going to replace this workstation here just with a plant, very quick and easy to do. Now, what we're going to do is go to the Insert tab on the ribbon, and in the Block panel, click on Replace, and we're…

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