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Using groups - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2024 Essential Training
Using groups
We're starting a new chapter now and we're going to be taking a look at reusable content in our AutoCAD drawings. We've got a new drawing for you, you may recognize it, it's called newofficeproject.dwg and we have used a similar drawing for other chapters in the course. Make sure you open up the newofficeproject.dwg file once you've downloaded it from the library and we're going to be taking a look at how we utilize groups in AutoCAD now one of the nice things about AutoCAD is it allows you to group basically separate objects together in a named group so that you can manipulate them a bit more easily now we're going to take a look at our little bin store over here, over on the left hand side so you might want to zoom and pan a little, like so, get it into the center of the screen like that and the Groups panel is on the Home tab on the Ribbon so over here, Groups. Now a lot of people use this command here, Group, and it creates a group of objects. Now that's great but you might need…
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