Exercise duration: ~15 minutes

Using the Design Center

In this exercise you will use the Autodesk
Design Center to bring CAD content such as
blocks and linetypes into your current drawing.

Then you will use the search option to bring a

hatch pattern into your current drawing as well.

Learning objectives:

• Work with the Design Center

The Design Center in AutoCAD

1. Start a new drawing using the default

template in AutoCAD.

Figure 1. Using the default template in

AutoCAD

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2. Open the Design Center. Browse to
where you stored the Design Center
exercise files. Expand the Civil.dwt
template file, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2. Expanding the Civil.dwt file in the

Design Center

3. Bring the Barscale block into the

drawing.

Figure 3. Bring the Barscale block into the

drawing

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4. Bring 5 linetypes into the drawing. Use
the search option to find the
Roofing_SpanishTile.pat file.

Figure 4. The hatch pattern file after being

added to the Design center

5. Create a small, closed polyline to add

the hatch pattern to, as shown in
Figure 5.

Figure 5. The hatch pattern applied to a

rectangular polyline

6. End of exercise.

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