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By Nancy Fulton
In this project you'll learn how to create Multi-View blocks that are compatible
with standard layouts and display representation sets for use in AutoCAD
Architectural Desktop software. A Multi-View block is a block that can look
different in reflected, side, and 3D views.
You'll learn how to:
Create Multi-View block components from a 3D model.
Define new Multi-View blocks.
Assign components of a Multi-View block to specific views.
Insert a Multi-View block into a drawing.
Export Multi-View blocks for use in other drawings.
Import Multi-View blocks for use in the current drawing.
7. Press ENTER to indicate that you don't want to select any more objects. You
have just created a 2D representation of the top view of the 3D model and stored it
in a file called top.wmf.
8. From the View 3D Views menu, choose Top.
9. From the View Zoom menu, choose Realtime.
10. Click and drag out to display some space around the 3D model.
11. Right-click in the drawing area and choose Exit.
You will find a version of the drawing file to this point in 9915b.dwg.
Tip: You can use the Reference option of the SCALE command to
scale the WMF geometry more precisely if desired.
Creating Blocks
Now that you have created front and top view geometry, in addition to the 3D
geometry, you can use the geometry to create blocks.
1. From the Draw toolbar, choose Make Block.
2. In the name box, type light-3D.
7. Press ENTER to indicate that you don't want to select any more objects.
4. From the Design Design Content menu, choose Add Multi-View Block.
5. Choose Lamp from the list of blocks.
Figure 15: Seeing different views of a Multi-View block in 3D and Reflected display
representations.
Figure 16: Viewing a reflected ceiling plan with the top view of the Multi-View
block displayed.
16. Select two points to put a window around the block in any view. Note that the
view correctly displays the side view of the 3D model.
Save the lamp.dwg drawing file onto your local hard disk, then import it into your
drawing.