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Detecting objects to convert to blocks (BDETECT) - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: Leveraging AI in AutoCAD
Detecting objects to convert to blocks (BDETECT)
- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our Office Layout.dwg file. And what we're going to do this time is detect more than one object type to convert to blocks using the Detect command. Now, basically, we're going to detect objects to convert to blocks in this Office Layout.dwg file. But before we do that, we're going to make sure that some specific objects will be in that detection selection set. So zooming in to the top right corner here, we're going to look at these two doors here. Select that one and select that one there like so. We're then going to go to the Home tab on the ribbon, into the Modify panel, and we're going to explode them back to their original layers. Now, you'll notice they're on layer zero. You've got some lines and some arcs. Now they're not blocks anywhere. Now, you can double-click on the wheel to zoom extents again if you want to. It doesn't matter. But what we're going to do now is go to the Insert tab on the ribbon and into the Block panel, click on…
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